| Mikhail Mikhailovich [mi-keyl mi-key-luh-vich; Russ. myi-khuh-yeel myi-khuh-yee-law-vich] , 1895–1975, Russian literary critic and theorist and linguistic philosopher. |
Bakh·tin  (bäk-tēn', bäKH-) Russian linguist and literary critic, whose writings, including Problems of Dostoyevsky's Works (1929) and The Dialogic Imagination (1975), were very influential in 20th-century structuralism, poststructuralism, social theory, and the theory of the novel. |
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