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Fascinating, Phil. What in the world do people like Michael Holquist have to say about this matter?? mike On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Phil Chappell <philchappell@mac.com> wrote: > Apologies for cross posting: thought this might be of interest to some > folks here. > > Phil > > Just a note, for those of you who read a bit of French, to alert you to an > important new book by our colleague Jean-Paul Bronkart (whose work I was > belatedly introduced to through his participation in ISFC 38 in Lisbon in > July). > > The book argues convincingly that Bakhtin lied about being the author of > Voloshinov’s Marxism and the Philosophy of Language and Medvedev’s The > Formal Method in Literary Scholarship, calls into serious question his > authorship of Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics, and shows that the key > concepts in famous papers such as ‘The problem of speech genres’ were > plagiarised from Voloshinov. > > I am embarrassed to have been caught up myself in this scandal, having > quoted over and over again in talks and publications a couple of passages > from ‘The problem of speech genres’, wrongly crediting them to Bakhtin. > I guess it is time for us all to read Marxism and the Philosophy of > Language carefully again, give credit where credit is due, and start winding > back this longstanding intellectual charade. > > Bronckart, J-P & C Bota 2011 Bakhtine démasqué: histoire d’un menteur, > d’une escroquerie et d’un délire collectif. Geneve: Librairie Droz. > > Our thanks for Jean-Paul for this wonderful piece of scholarship. > > Jim (Martin)__________________________________________ > _____ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca > __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca