Speech Genres and Other Late Essays

M. M. Bakhtin (1895–1975) was a Russian literary critic and philosopher.Vern W. McGee(1939–2015) studied Russian and comparative literature; he received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 1986.Caryl Emerson is A. Watson Armour III University Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University.Michael Holquist (1935–2016) was a professor of comparative literature at Yale University and a leading scholar of Bakhtin's works.

• Note on TranslationIntroduction by Michael HolquistResponse to a Question from the Novy Mir Editorial StaffThe Bildungsroman and Its Significance in the History of Realism (Toward a Historical Typology of the Novel)The Problem of Speech GenresThe Problem of the Text in Linguistics, Philology, and the Human Sciences: An Experiment in Philosophical AnalysisFrom Notes Made in 1970-71Toward a Methodology for the Human SciencesIndex

. . . in many ways the best of Bakhtin. (New York Times Book Review)