Nevertheless, mine is not an unalloyed "Bakhtinian" reading of Mark Twain, if only because Twain's own troubled investigation of language's shortcomings calls into question.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Twain's Languages] Reference

This is especially true of comic novels, or at least those novels that are truly "comic" in the Bakhtinian sense and not just "satirical.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Comedy in Literature] Reference

For a subtler account of tone and persona, couched in a Bakhtinian vocabulary but consonant in many respects with my own, see Pearce, 139-57. back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Like] Reference

The hegemonic discourse of postmodernity valorizes modes of expressive and aesthetic'' praxis which preclude any dialogic articulation in, of course, the Bakhtinian sense of the antinomies of consumer capitalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morton on Imprisonment and Escape on L'Isle de Gilligan] Reference

Again, I like very much your assertion of the importance of a historical, even Bakhtinian perspective on game genres, but I think this perspective is a departure from most canonical ludological writing, even more so than the narratological view as you've presented it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ye Olde Disciplinary Punch-and-Judy Show] Reference

NYPD Blue, a show which, largely because of its strong language and partial nudity, has inspired perhaps more complaints than any other series on television from those convinced the media corrupt our public morals, lends itself to a favorable Bakhtinian reading even more than L.A. Law.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Soul of Andy Sipowicz | PopPolitics.com] Reference

Filtering the intellectual and cultural legacy of the Western world, his works probe the vital connection between the socio-political and the personal in a style imbued with the imaginative power of the oral tradition of his birthplace and bursting with the explosive energies of Bakhtinian grotesque realism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenzaburo Oe: Laughing Prophet and Soulful Healer] Reference

Bakhtinian study, much of it devoted to Wiesel.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Week's Acquisitions] Reference

McGann's Bakhtinian method allows him to claim for "Casabianca" an "excellence" that "transcends the poem's all-but-declared morality.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Hemans, Heber, and _Superstition and Revelation_] Reference