Bakhtin and Rabelais
Theory as Praxis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11327554 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Holquist (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1/2 |
| Pages | 5 |
| Publication date | 1982-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | boundary 2 (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0190-3659 • E-ISSN: 1527-2141 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/303015 |
| OpenAlex | W2320575744 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Revolutions, when they really are revolutions, are painful to experience, even for those who have made them: they combine the peculiar ugliness of civil war with the inescapability of total war. But revolutions are also difficult to think through. I don't mean that it is especially hard to imagine a revolution happening somewhere else to somebody else. But those who find themselves actually living on the cusp of revolutionary change are confronted with challenges most of us are spared: they must think a continuity for their own identity at a time when most of the received categories for doing so have broken down. The pain of such a task is what the Chinese wished to spare their friends when they invoked the phrase, May you not live in interesting times. Those who live through a revolution experience in their own attempts to erect a biography a rip in the fabric of time. They are willy nilly thrown into the work of history. The commonest man is
Epistemology · Praxis · Comparative and World Literature · Literature, Culture, and Criticism · Philosophy · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies
| Citations per year | 0.36 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2024 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |