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Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 18:50:41 +1300 (NZDT)
From: "Tim Adams" <t.adams-AT-auckland.ac.nz>
Subject: Re: Bakhtin and Sartre


Responding To:    Hassan Melehy <hmelehy-AT-uconnvm.uconn.edu>
Original Date:    Mon, 19 Oct 1998 10:20:53 -0400
> 
> Dear Tim,
> 
> You may already have responses to your questions, but let me offer a few
> suggestions:
> 
> A collection of essays by Bakhtin, _The Dialogic Imagination_, tr. Caryl
> Emerson and Michael Holquist (Austin:  U of Texas Press, 1981), contains 
> a
> number of Bakhtin's most important writings on the novel.  The notion of
> "utterance" is developed mostly, as far as I know, in the text attributed
> to V. N. Voloshinov (written by the "Bakhtin circle," if not Bakhtin
> himself) title _Marxism and the Philosophy of Language, tr. Ladislav
> Matejka and I.R. Titunik (Cambridge:  Harvard UP, 1986).  Sartre develops
> the notion of the _intellectuel engage_, or the committed intellectual, 
> at
> length in _Qu'est-ce que la litterature?_ (_What Is Literature?_).
> 
> Best of luck.
> 
> -- Hassan Melehy
> 
> Hassan Melehy, Assistant Professor of French and Comparative Literature
> Dept. of Modern and Classical Languages
> U-57
> University of Connecticut
> Storrs, CT  06269-1057
> USA
> 
>
Many thanks Hassan,
Actually, you are the only one to reply so far, but you have told me 
exactly what I wanted to know and thus saved me many hours of research. If 
we weren't territorialized in different hemispheres I'd offer to buy you a 
drink.

Best wishes,
Tim Adams
Department of Architecture
University of Auckland
New Zealand

 




   

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