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Rowan Williams and Mikhail Bakhtin: The Appeal of Polyphony
… relationship between Rowan Williams and Mikhail Bakhtin, especially Bakhtin’s notion of polyphony. This thesis traces the presence of the polyphonic approach in Williams’ work to three main issues: the debate around the nature and future of the Anglican Communion, the debate around the place of …
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Frank Zappa and Mikhail Bakhtin: Rabelais's carnival made contemporary
<p>For this project, the author uses Bakhtin's theory of carnival to illuminate Zappa's sound and rhetoric. The author hopes that by using this theoretical lens allows audiences to understand Zappa's choices in subject matter. Those who can see his work as satire and understand the use of …
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Frank Zappa and Mikhail Bakhtin: Rabelais's carnival made contemporary
<p>For this project, the author uses Bakhtin's theory of carnival to illuminate Zappa's sound and rhetoric. The author hopes that by using this theoretical lens allows audiences to understand Zappa's choices in subject matter. Those who can see his work as satire and understand the use of …
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The Practical Application of Bakhtin and Related Theory to Language Education
… from Moyer), and intentional refraction (as from Bakhtin). Upon this foundation is further developed a potentially far-reaching and interrelated semiotic system, involving yet other interrelated formulations more precisely addressing that which facilitates discourse proficiency."
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When the carnival is over : Peter Barnes' Red Noses and the theories of Mikhail Bakhtin
… texts in Red Noses in performance. Mikhail Bakhtin's theories are usually applied to verbal and, in particular, printed texts. Indeed, Bakhtin (1981, p.266) himself has stated that the organisation of languages in drama does not allow for the dialogic interpenetration of one language by …
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The touristic text and sociopolitical struggle: An application of the principles of Mikhail Bakhtin to the study of tour guidebooks of Japan, 1955 to 1991. (Volumes I and II)
"The critical theories of Mikhail Bakhtin and his circle are employed to analyze the texts of selected editions from two series of comprehensive guidebooks to Japan: the Fodor's guidebook series, 1962 through 1990; and the Japan Travel Bureau's Japan, the Official Guide, 1955 through 1991. The …
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Subversive pseudo-dialogic : W.B. Yeats's use of the dialogic to present the monologic.
The application of Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of the dialogic provides unique insight into the poetry and plays of W.B. Yeats. Though this early twentieth century Irish writer favored poetry over the novel form on which Bakhtin based his studies, his compositions can be better understood and his …
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Narrative strategies in the gospel according to Luke : a Bakhtinian exploration
… Russian literary scholar and linguist, Mikhail Bakhtin, this thesis has set out to explore narrative strategy in the Gospel of Luke, the aim being to consider how this would affect a generic reading, and what implications this would have in assessing the discourse of this text. Bakhtin …
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Horace in dialogue : a Bakhtinian study of speakers, interlocutors, addressees and audiences in the moralising satires of horace sermones books one and two
… by the Russian thinker Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (1895-1975). The thesis proposes examining Horatian satire or sermo, as Horace himself termed his genre, as the 'conversation' that this name implies it is. Bakhtin himself observed that Horace's Satires were one of the works that could be …
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Authority and Personality in M.M. Bakhtin's "Author and Hero in Aesthetic Activity"
M.M. Bakhtin's fundamental claim in his seminal essay "Author and Hero in Aesthetic Activity" situates verbal action as the most essential constituent of human personality. A careful reading of this text reveals important truths about the relationship between free individual personhood and the …
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The signification of speech and writing in the work of Charles Dickens
Drawing upon the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and Jacques Derrida, this study examines the representation of speech and writing in selected novels and journalism of Charles Dickens. The initial chapter describes the differing attitudes of Bakhtin and Derrida to language, writing and literature. A purely …
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Ao rés da ausência : sobre vozes, subalternidades e contadoras em Maria Valéria Rezende
… escritora materializa em sua obra as axiologias (BAKHTIN, 1997) de uma escrita marcada pelo ato do dizer como uma ação experienciada (BENJAMIN, 1994) no próprio interior da sociedade. Neste trabalho, nos dedicaremos a pensar na utilização da voz contadora de histórias como um recurso discursivo …
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Identity as ethical responsibility: A manifesto for social change in Toni Morrison's fiction
Reading Morrison’s fiction at the hand of Bakhtin and Levinas, as well as considering her own non-fiction, led to the conclusion that sufficient evidence exists to argue Morrison’s novels present identity as ethical responsibility that can advocate for a manifesto for positive social change. …
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A Unity of Contraries: Dorothy Day and the 'No-Alibi' Rhetoric of Defiance and Devotion
… metaphors associated with Martin Buber and M. M. Bakhtin. Concepts of conscience, community and the complexities associated with being authentically human are engaged within an interpretive journey of a life lived in response to the flashpoints of the last century. </p><p>Enlisting hermeneutics as …
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A Carnivalesque Perspective of Graham Swift's Last Orders
… carnivalesque elements as defined by Mikhail Bakhtin in Rabelais and His World. Through the examination of Bakhtin’s theory of the carnivalesque and through a corresponding close reading of Last Orders, this article details the carnivalesque nature of the locations visited by the characters in …
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O treinamento de ator na licenciatura em Artes (UFPR - Litoral) : diálogos Bakhtinianos com professores em formação
… A análise foi realizada na perspectiva de Bakhtin e o Círculo. Entre as conclusões da pesquisa, destacam-se os sentidos do treinamento de ator como prática pedagógica na formação de professores de Artes, a partir do qual o papel do Artista-Docente-Pesquisador está em alternância durante …
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Madness and narrative understanding: A comparison of two female firsthand narratives of madness in the pre and post enlightenment periods.
… space to these marginalised voices and it is Bakhtin¿s constructs of dialogicism, polyphony, unfinalizability and the chronotope that provide the tools for the narrative analysis of two female English writers; Margery Kempe and Mary Barnes. The analysis highlights three critical issues in …
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The Bakhtinian Grotesque in fashion at the turn of the twenty-first century
… of the twenty-first century. Drawing on Mikhail Bakhtin's theories, it investigates the reasons behind the proliferation of grotesque imagery within fashion of the period. In 'Rabelais and his World', Bakhtin traces a "struggle" between the classical and grotesque concepts of the body in the West …
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The Novel and Society: A Postmodern Perspective on Pedagogy
… Using the ideas of Russian theorists Mikhail Bakhtin and Lev Vygotsky, I am proposing a pegagogical reform in how we use the novel in our junior and senior high school classrooms. According to Bakhtin, the novel is alive, liberated and liberating, anticanonical, unfinalized, and unfinalizable …
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