John Cook

M. M. Bakhtin and the German proto-Romantic tradition

John Cook

Journal article  |  2020  |  Studies in East European Thought

This paper seeks to explore the relationship between Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin’s theoretical apparatus and ideas of the immedia..

Review of Bowers, K., C. Doak, and K. Holland (eds.). 2018. A Dostoevskii Companion: Texts and Con-texts (Academic Studies Press: Boston, MA). xx 535 pages.

John Cook

Journal article  |  2019  |  Australian Slavonic and East European Studies

Performativity and the scope of Bakhtin’s chronotope

John Cook

Journal article  |  2019  |  Australian Slavonic and East European Studies

Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (1895-1975) was a Soviet thinker who masked his philosophical notions and concepts under the guise of..

Glances and Loopholes: Bakhtin’s view of Dostoevsky’s Linguistic Microcosm

John Cook

Journal article  |  2018  |  The Dostoevsky Journal: A Comparative Literature Review

The two figures of speech, «cлoвo c oглядкoй» [a word with a backward glance] and «cлoвo c лaзeйкoй» [a word with a loophole], can..

Lucian of Samosata’s Menippean satire: its place in Bakhtin’s theoretical frameworks

J Cook

Journal article  |  2018  |  Critical Theory

This paper examines a number of aspects of Bakhtin’s treatment of Lucian of Samosata (115/125 CE -190 CE), a Menippean satirist wr..

Review of F. Dostoevsky, The Russian Soul: Selections from A Writer's Diary (Introduction by Rosamund Bartlett). Honiton, UK: Notting Hill Editions, 2017. ISBN 9781910749630. xxxiii 137 pages.

J Cook

Journal article  |  2018  |  Australian Slavonic and East European Studies

Review of M. N. Epstein, A. A. Genis, and S. M. Vladiv-Glover, Russian Postmodernism: New Perspectives on Post-Soviet Culture (translated by S. M. Vladiv-Glover). New York, NY: Berghahn Books, 2016. ISBN 978-1-78238-864-7. xxii 579 pages.

J Cook

Journal article  |  2018  |  Australian Slavonic and East European Studies

Review of S. Evdokima and V. Golstein (eds.), Dostoevsky beyond Dostoevsky: Science, Religion, Philosophy, Academic Studies Press: Boston, MA, 2016 413 pp.

J Cook

Journal article  |  2017  |  Australian Slavonic and East European Studies

Points of View - Sites of Conflict: Dissimulation as Protective Disguise

John Cook

Journal article  |  2015  |  Parallax

Events Set in Amber: Bakhtin's 'Chronotope of the Castle' as Solidified Space-Time

J Cook

Journal article  |  2014  |  Australian Slavonic and East European Studies

Together with ‘dialogism’ and ‘carnival’, the chronotope is one of Bakhtin’s most recognisable contributions to literary theory. ..