Quotations from Mikhail Bakhtin's Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics

Dostoevsky's Poetics:

"Nature makes no distinction of genres; the tragic and comic, the beautiful and ugly, the sublime and grotesque, mingle in life, and they should mingle in the story."

"The carnivalisation of passion is evidenced first and foremost in its ambivalence: love is combined with hatred, avarice with selflessness, ambition with self-abasement, and so forth.

"For our purpose it was important to trace only the basic lines of the tradition. We emphasize again that we are not interested in the influence of separate individual authors, individual works, individual themes, ideas, images—( Read more... )