"The Ultimate Threshold Dialogue"
Toward an Overview of Bakhtin''s Philosophy of Christianity
Published on 27. July 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
76 pages
978-3-8383-8039-1 (ISBN)
Description
This thesis conducted under the tutelage of Professor Ricardo Ortiz at Georgetown University explores the early work of M.M. Bakhtin, emphasizing the influence of his Christian faith on the ideas that would later comprise dialogism. The ethical relationship between author and hero, and hero and the world, informs the freedom-preserving embodiment of an internally persuasive discourse that defies authoritative discourse. For Bakhtin Christ epitomizes that embodiment, and an analysis of two Russian works in which Christ appears as a character - Dostoevsky''s The Grand Inquisitor and Bulgakov''s Master and Margarita - illustrates this idea.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Germany
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
131 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8383-8039-1 (9783838380391)
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Brian Chappell is a Ph.D. student in literature and a teaching fellow at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He specializes in twentieth-century American fiction and critical theory. The research for "The Ultimate Threshold Dialogue" was conducted during his work on an M.A. in literature at Georgetown University.