Bakhtin and the Social Moorings of Poetry

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Bakhtin and the Social Moorings of Poetry is written by Donald Wesling and published by Bucknell University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0838755402 (ISBN 10) and 9780838755402 (ISBN 13).

"This book rescues Bakhtin from his overstatements concerning poetry, and gives the theoretical and practical basis for reading poems with the help of Bakhtin's categories of utterance, heteroglossia, and dialogue. In addition, through this rescue, the book offers a modest but strong foundation for a reading of poetry, and indeed of all literary texts, where a clash of social positions is fought out on the territory of the utterance. To find a believable poetics of social forms is the order of the day, and Donald Wesling's admiring and yet skeptical revision of Bakhtin will be part of the explanation we need."--Jacket.