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Also Known As Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin
Born November 17, 1895 • Oryol • Russia • (Birthday in 4 days)
Died March 7, 1975 (aged 79) • Moscow • Soviet Union
Notable Works “Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics” • “The Dialogic Imagination”
Subjects Of Study literature • linguistics • aesthetics • cultural evolution • language
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