books.google.com - These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)—known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky—as a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician of the novel. The Dialogic Imagination presents, in superb English translation, four selections from...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_dialogic_imagination.html?id=JKZztxqdIpgC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe dialogic imagination