Mikhail Bakhtin

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Also Known As	Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin
Born	November 17, 1895 • Oryol • Russia
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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