Mikhail Bakhtin
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Mikhail Bakhtin was a Russian philosopher and literary theorist known for his concepts of dialogism, the carnivalesque, and the polyphonic novel, which have had a lasting impact on literary and cultural studies.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mikhail Bakhtin canonical | 8 |
| Bakhtin | 1 |
| Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin | 1 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mikhail Bakhtin Context triple: [François Rabelais, influenced, Mikhail Bakhtin]
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Viktor Shklovsky
Viktor Shklovsky was a Russian literary theorist, critic, and writer, best known as a founding figure of Russian Formalism and for developing the concept of "defamiliarization" in art and literature.
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Yuri Lotman
Yuri Lotman was a prominent Russian-Estonian literary scholar and semiotician, best known as a founder of the Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School and for his influential work on the semiotics of culture and literature.
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Nicolas Berdyaev
Nicolas Berdyaev was a Russian religious and existential philosopher known for his Christian personalism, critique of authoritarianism, and emphasis on human freedom and creativity.
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Tzvetan Todorov
Tzvetan Todorov was a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary theorist, and historian of ideas known for his influential work on structuralism, narrative theory, and the analysis of totalitarianism and otherness.
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Venedikt Erofeev
Venedikt Erofeev was a Russian writer and satirist best known for his cult prose poem "Moscow-Petushki," a darkly comic, philosophical account of a drunken train journey.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mikhail Bakhtin Target entity description: Mikhail Bakhtin was a Russian philosopher and literary theorist known for his concepts of dialogism, the carnivalesque, and the polyphonic novel, which have had a lasting impact on literary and cultural studies.
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A.
Viktor Shklovsky
Viktor Shklovsky was a Russian literary theorist, critic, and writer, best known as a founding figure of Russian Formalism and for developing the concept of "defamiliarization" in art and literature.
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B.
Yuri Lotman
Yuri Lotman was a prominent Russian-Estonian literary scholar and semiotician, best known as a founder of the Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School and for his influential work on the semiotics of culture and literature.
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C.
Nicolas Berdyaev
Nicolas Berdyaev was a Russian religious and existential philosopher known for his Christian personalism, critique of authoritarianism, and emphasis on human freedom and creativity.
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D.
Tzvetan Todorov
Tzvetan Todorov was a Bulgarian-French philosopher, literary theorist, and historian of ideas known for his influential work on structuralism, narrative theory, and the analysis of totalitarianism and otherness.
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E.
Venedikt Erofeev
Venedikt Erofeev was a Russian writer and satirist best known for his cult prose poem "Moscow-Petushki," a darkly comic, philosophical account of a drunken train journey.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Russian literary theorist
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Russian philosopher ⓘ human ⓘ literary theorist ⓘ philosopher ⓘ |
| birthCountry | Russian Empire ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1895-11-17 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Oryol ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Russian Empire
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Soviet Union ⓘ |
| deathCountry | Soviet Union ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1975-03-07 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Moscow ⓘ |
| era | 20th-century philosophy ⓘ |
| familyName |
Bakhtin
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linked to:
Mikhail Bakhtin
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| fieldOfWork |
cultural theory
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literary theory ⓘ philology ⓘ philosophy ⓘ semiotics ⓘ |
| fullName |
Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin
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linked to:
Mikhail Bakhtin
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| givenName | Mikhail ⓘ |
| hasAcademicConcept | Bakhtinian dialogism ⓘ |
| influenced |
critical theory
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cultural studies ⓘ linguistics ⓘ literary studies ⓘ narratology ⓘ |
| knownFor |
concept of dialogism
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concept of the carnivalesque ⓘ concept of the polyphonic novel ⓘ theory of chronotope ⓘ theory of heteroglossia ⓘ work on François Rabelais ⓘ work on Fyodor Dostoevsky ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Russian ⓘ |
| movement |
Russian formalism (critical interlocutor)
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linked to:
Russian formalism
dialogism ⓘ |
| name | Mikhail Bakhtin ⓘ |
| nationality | Russian ⓘ |
| notableConcept |
carnivalesque
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chronotope ⓘ dialogism ⓘ heteroglossia ⓘ polyphony ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics
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Rabelais and His World ⓘ The Dialogic Imagination ⓘ Toward a Philosophy of the Act ⓘ |
| occupation |
literary critic
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philologist ⓘ philosopher ⓘ |
| subjectOf | Bakhtinian criticism ⓘ |
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Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mikhail Bakhtin
linked to: Mikhail Bakhtin