Which among the following are written by Mikhail Bakhtin?
A) White Mythology
B) Freudianism: A Marxist Critique
C) The Ideology of the Aesthetics
D) Rabelais and His World
E) Morphology of the Folktale
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Correct Answer :
B and D only.
Solution :
The correct answer is B and D only.
Let us analyze each of the options step-by-step to understand why this is the correct choice:
A) White Mythology: This essay was written by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida (originally published in 1971 in French as "La mythologie blanche"), not by Mikhail Bakhtin.
B) Freudianism: A Marxist Critique: This book was published in 1927. Although published under the name of V. N. Voloshinov, it is widely believed by literary scholars to have been written or heavily co-authored/influenced by Mikhail Bakhtin as part of the "Bakhtin Circle." In many academic contexts and curricula, it is attributed to Bakhtin.
C) The Ideology of the Aesthetic: This book (published in 1990) was written by the British literary theorist and philosopher Terry Eagleton, not by Mikhail Bakhtin.
D) Rabelais and His World: This is one of Mikhail Bakhtin's most famous and definitive works. Written in the 1940s and published in 1965, it explores the concepts of carnival, carnivalesque, and grotesque realism in the works of François Rabelais.
E) Morphology of the Folktale: This foundational work in structuralism and narratology (published in 1928) was written by the Russian folklorist Vladimir Propp, not by Mikhail Bakhtin.
Therefore, among the given list, the works associated with Mikhail Bakhtin are B and D only.
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