Bakhtin and the Social Moorings of Poetry

Though his main interests are British and American literature, Wesling also studies Russian literature. Here he argues that the thought of Russian philosopher of communication Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) can show how social speech gets into verse, and how to confront the antipoetic prejudice wherever it occurs. Distributed in the US by Associated University Presses. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR