Bakhtinian
- adjective
- /bɑːkˈtiːniən/
- Literature
- The author's Bakhtinian approach highlights the importance of context in literary interpretation.
Examples
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Two Bakhtinian ideas provide the foundation for this investigation.
Academic text (1996) -
From a Bakhtinian perspective, this charge is a half-truth.
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The Bakhtinian School
Academic text (1991) -
Bakhtinian intertextuality, for example, while recognizing the fragmentation of texts into their intertexts, attempts to place each fragment socially and historically.
Academic text (1995) -
It provides the opportunity to ground an understanding of Bakhtinian dialogism in concrete examples of co-narration from an admittedly random storytelling session I happened to capture on tape in 1986.
Academic text (2017) -
Wilson shows how Bakhtinian dialogics conform to a Native model of objectivity, the moral component of which is communicated through the oral tradition: PREFORMATTED TABLE
Academic text (2001) -
In a Bakhtinian sense, the grotesque, carnivalesque nose is an icon of deceit and also of the reversal of hierarchies characteristic of part II from the outset and pursued throughout the principal episodes that follow.
Academic text (2002) -
The novel's shifts in narrative voicing (from first to third person) and focalization (the Primer Magistrado also describes himself both from within and without) draw the reader-spectator into its Bakhtinian dialogue of perceptions.
Academic text (1998) -
Many literary critics today embrace Bakhtinian concepts to analyze novels in new ways.
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His work reflects Bakhtinian themes, especially the idea of dialogue between texts.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Bakhtinian = Bakhtin (semi-transparent) = Bakhtin + ian
Formed by the proper name 'Bakhtin' plus the productive adjectival suffix '-ian'; the morphology is regular but full understanding requires knowledge of the person.
Etymology
Bakhtinian comes from the name Bakhtin and the ending -ian, which means 'related to' or 'from', like in Newtonian or Italian. So a Bakhtinian approach uses Mikhail Bakhtin's ideas, for example his focus on many voices and dialogue in literature.