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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 42. Chapters: Mikhail Bakhtin, Oleg Trubachyov, Franz Anton Schiefner, Vladimir Propp, Nikolai Dmitriev, Alexander Kasimovich Kazembek, List of Russian linguists and philologists, Marina Orlova, Aleksei Losev, Yuri Lotman, Alexander Afanasyev, D. S. Mirsky, Dmitry Likhachov, Konstantin Bogdanov, Irakly Andronikov, Mikhail Gasparov, Valentin Voloshinov, Aleksey Shakhmatov, Otto von Bohtlingk, Izmail Sreznevsky, Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov, Alexander Veselovsky, Nikolai Rogov, Fyodor Buslaev, Viktor Vinogradov, Pavel Nikolaevich Medvedev, Dmitry Gerasimov, Zara Mints, Yakov Grot, Nikolay Gretsch, Boris Grakov, Natan Eidelman, Mihhail Lotman, Alexander Vostokov, Galina Varlamova, Vladimir Toporov, Nikolai Fedorenko, Lev Uspensky, Aleksandr Nazarenko, Vsevolod Miller, Peter Bezsonov, Boris Uspensky, Fyodor Braun, Pyotr Pletnyov, Vladimir Abashev, Dmitry Ushakov, Pyotr Kireevsky, Nochum Shtif. Excerpt: Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (Russian: , pronounced ) (November 17, 1895, Oryol - March 7, 1975) was a Russian philosopher, literary critic, semiotician and scholar who worked on literary theory, ethics, and the philosophy of language. His writings, on a variety of subjects, inspired scholars working in a number of different traditions (Marxism, semiotics, structuralism, religious criticism) and in disciplines as diverse as literary criticism, history, philosophy, anthropology and psychology. Although Bakhtin was active in the debates on aesthetics and literature that took place in the Soviet Union in the 1920s, his distinctive position did not become well known until he was rediscovered by Russian scholars in the 1960s. Bakhtin had a difficult life and career, and few of his works were published in an authoritative form during his lifetime. As a result, there is substantial disagreement over matters that are normally taken for...
