Tag: Bakhtin

• Fragments from the Burning Archive: Mikhail Bakhtin

  

  I plunged again into my white box of old handwritten index cards today, and pulled from the archive, laid down in my twenties and thirties, a fragment from Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975), the Russian literary critic and philosopher. The text comes from a late work of Bakhtin, Speech Genres, although I took the text from Clark […]

  Jeff Rich

  December 30, 2020

  culture, literature, Personal story

  Bakhtin, literature, writing

• Gathering flowers for the mind

  This morning I pulled down from my bookshelf a cardboard box that contains a hundred or more index cards on which I had written in the 1980s and 1990s when I was a student, and before computers, quotations, drawn from my reading. This old habit is like gathering flowers for the mind, and the sewing […]

  Jeff Rich

  July 25, 2016

  Personal story, quotations to write by

  Bakhtin, Schiller, Weber