Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• A Note on Translation
• Introduction
• Epic and Novel
• From the Prehistory of Novelistic Discourse
• Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel
• Discourse in the Novel
• Glossary
• Index

Promotional Information

Examines the difficulty of arriving at a generic definition of the novel and attempts a classification of novelistic works based on the philosophic attitude toward time and space that each presumes

About the Author

M. M. Bakhtin (1895-1975) is one of the preeminent figures in twentieth-century philosophical thought.

Reviews

"The translation is a remarkable accomplishment ... the editing is flawless; and the introductory essay by Holquist is superb." - Edward Wasiolek, Comparative Literature