Table of Contents

• Note on Translation
• Introduction by Michael Holquist
• Response to a Question from the Editorial Staff
• The Bildungsroman and Its Significance in the History of Realism (Toward a Historical Typology of the Novel)
• The Problem of Speech Genres
• The Problem of the Text in Linguistics, Philology, and the Human Sciences: An Experiment in Philosophical Analysis
• From Notes Made in 1970-71
• Toward a Methodology for the Human Sciences
• Index

Promotional Information

Presents six short works from Bakhtin's Esthetics of Creative Discourse

About the Author

Michael Holquist is a professor of comparative literature and Slavic studies at Yale University.

Reviews

". . . in many ways the best of Bakhtin." * New York Times Book Review *