Northrop Frye and Mikhail Bakhtin: Parallel, Opposing, Converging Views

Abstract

Although both authors were concerned with similar subjects, comparing such different lives is almost impossible. In both cases there is a whole life devoted to literature, to literary study, history and culture. Frye and Bakhtin lived in very different worlds - Canada and Russiawithout mutual knowledge of each other, completely ignoring each other's intellectual creation.