Publication Date
5-6-1994
Abstract
In this paper, I intend to explore the theory of prosaics, which offers a quite different approach to life and historical events in particular. This theory was introduced;by the American scholar Gary Saul Morson. Morson coined the term prosaics in order to describe a concept that permeates the work of Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975), a Russian literary critic and philosopher. The most important concepts developed by Bakhtin are prosaics (Morson's and Emerson's term), unfinalizability, and dialogue. Bakhtin created also various theories: a comprehensive theory of literature that privileges prose and the novel, theories of languages, and of literary genres. Bakhtin was first rediscovered in the Soviet Union and the West in the 1960s and 1970s. Morson's and Emerson's work on Bakhtin's philosophy definitly contributed to the understanding of this original thinker.
Disciplines
Comparative Literature | Other Languages, Societies, and Cultures
Recommended Citation
Ushatova '94, Angelica, "Theory of Prosaics in Literature and History: Leo Tolstoy and Lion Feuchtwanger" (1994). Honors Projects. 6.
https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/russian_honproj/6