{"product_id":"9781623563462","title":"Romantic Literature in Light of Bakhtin","description":"\u003ch1\u003eRomantic Literature in Light of Bakhtin\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWalter L. Reed\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ Semiotics \u0026amp; Theory\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiterature and literary criticism throughout the twentieth century are famous for their proclamations of the death of the author, the eclipse of character and the \"nothingness of personality,\" as Borges put it.  Walter Reed investigates the ideas of personhood developed by  one of the most influential literary theorists of the last century: Mikhail Bakhtin. He finds in Bakhtin a personalism based on the idea of an ongoing dialogue \u003ci\u003ebetween \u003c\/i\u003eauthors and their heroes in imaginative literature.  Such a model of inter-personality, Reed argues, allows us to appreciate the rich possibilities of personhood set forth in the earlier nineteenth-century period of Romanticism.   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElaborating a new general theory and providing close readings of classic works of Romantic poetry and fiction, \u003ci\u003eRomantic Literature in Light of\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBakhtin \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a better understanding of the preoccupation with the individual, creative self that lay at the heart of this revolutionary literature that still speaks to readers today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWalter L. Reed\u003c\/b\u003e is the William Rand Kenan, Jr. University Professor of English and Comparative Literature in the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory University, USA. Professor Reed  has taught literature at Yale, the University of Texas, Austin, and Emory University.  His publications include \u003ci\u003eDialogues of the Word \u003c\/i\u003e(1993), \u003ci\u003eAn Exemplary History of the Novel \u003c\/i\u003e(1981) \u003ci\u003eMeditations on the Hero: A Study of the Romantic Hero in Nineteenth-Century Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e (1974).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e27 February 2014\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781623563462\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e192\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e13.76\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51331648323724,"sku":"9781623563462","price":180.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_1d3ba461-98ab-4e13-87d1-e89a89e0560a.jpg?v=1783598216","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781623563462","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}