Abstract
Russian modernism, focused in St Petersburg and in Moscow, takes many forms. One of its most striking was with the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, perhaps one of the most significant critics and theorists, of the twentieth century. His work on the novel is the most famous, as is that on carnival, but Bakhtin’s work cuts across Marxism, linguistics, and philosophy, and will be introduced here. There is also an emphasis to be placed on his relationship to the city, of which, this chapter argues, he is a major theorist.
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Tambling, J. (2021). Bakhtin and Cities: Petersburg, Paris, and Rome. In: Tambling, J. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62592-8_295-1
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