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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