Books by M. M. Bakhtin

Six short works from the last of Bakhtin's extant manuscripts published in the Soviet Union.

This anthology provides in a convenient format a good selection of the writing by Bakhtin and of that attributed to Voloshinov and Medvedev. It introduces readers to the aspects most relevant to literary and cultural studies and gives a focused sense of Bakhtin's central ideas and the underlying cohesiveness of his thinking.