{"product_id":"the-bakhtin-reader-9780340592670","title":"The Bakhtin Reader","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe innovative thinking associated with the name of Mikhail Bakhtin offers new approaches across a wide range of current theoretical concerns. At the centre of the work is an account of language that unites rigorous semiotic analysis with an emphasis upon discourse as fundamentally social: as \u003cem\u003edialogic\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis key concept combines theoretical accessibility with the potential to generate new thinking in such diverse fields as linguistics, feminist and Marxist studies, anthropology, reader-response, cultural and postcolonial studies, and aesthetics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Bakhtin Reader\u003c\/em\u003e offers a comprehensive introduction to the main works. The extracts included have been selected to provide a full sense of the four major areas of thought: discourse, novelistic form, literature and ideology, and carnival. Each extract is prefaced with an explanatory introduction to contextualize it within the general body of ideas and to clarify its main points.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47995578024172,"sku":"9780340592670","price":87.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780340592670-the-bakhtin-reader.jpg?v=1784898142","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-bakhtin-reader-9780340592670","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}