Iswolsky. Bloomington: Indiana University Press (1984). For a fuller understanding of Bakhtin's work one should read the work in full, but I hope the following will serve to introduce Bakhtin's concepts to beginning students of renaisance drama. Page numbers after particular passages refer the reader to the book. "Bakhtin's carnival, surely the most productive concept in this book, is not only ...

The article offers an analysis of the concept “intertext” that has been put forward by Julia Kristeva in her work “The Destruction Poetics” comparison with Mikhail Bakhtin’s idea a universal context and “infinite dialogue”. It is concluded incorrectly perceived thoughts about dialogue, which are personalistic nature contrast to Kristeva’s impersonal one based on Freudian-driven “It” social fact...