Bakhtin and the Classics.(Book Review)

The Modern Language Review | April 1, 2004| | Copyright

Bakhtin and the Classics. Ed. by R. BRACHT BRANHAM. Evanston: Northwestern University Press. 2002. xxvii + 299 pp. $27.95. ISBN 0-810-11906-4.

There must be few fields in the humanities which the works of Mikhail Bakhtin have not affected in some way, and even fewer which have not consequently generated their own array of responses to Bakhtin. Given Bakhtin's own classicist base under the tutelage of F. F. Zelinskii, and his articulation of his key tenets with reference to classical forms, particularly Menippean satire, it may come as a surprise that R. Bracht ...

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