In order to understand, it is immensely important for the person who understands to be located outside the object of his or… — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
All words have the "taste" of a profession, a genre, a tendency, a party, a particular work, a particular person, a generation,… — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
The catharsis that finalizes Dostoevsky's novels might be - of course inadequately and somewhat rationalistically - expressed in this way: nothing conclusive has yet… — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
In poetry, even discourse about doubts must be cast in a discourse that cannot be doubted. — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
“What is realized in the novel is the process of coming to know one's own language as it is perceived in someone else's language,… — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
In order to understand, it is immensely important for the person who understands to be located outside the object of his or her creative… — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
The word in language is half someone else’s… it exists in other people’s mouths, in other people’s contexts, serving other people’s intentions: it is… — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
Words belong to nobody, and in themselves they evaluate nothing. But they can serve any speaker and be used for the most varied and… — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
It becomes 'one's own' only when the speaker populates it with his own intentions, his own accent, when he appropriates the word, adapting it… — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
All words have the "taste" of a profession, a genre, a tendency, a party, a particular work, a particular person, a generation, an age… — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
