Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics Mikhail Bakhtin Translated by Caryl Emerson		$20.00 Paper ISBN: 0-8166-1228-5 ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-1228-4
This book is not only a major twentieth-century contribution to Dostoevsky's studies, but also one of the most important theories of the novel produced in our century. As a modern reinterpretation of poetics, it bears comparison with Aristotle. "Concentrating on the particular features of 'Dostoevskian discourse,' how Dostoevsky structures a hero and a plot, and what it means to write dialogically, Bakhtin concludes with a major theoretical statement on dialogue as a category of language. One of the most important theories of the novel in this century." —Bloomsbury Review 333 pages | 6 x 9 | 1993 Theory and History of Literature Series, volume 8