Jonathan Fruoco
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Jonathan Fruoco, FRHistS is a French historian who specializes in medieval English literature, with a specific focus on the polyphony of Geoffrey Chaucer's poetry, and historical sociolinguistics. In
Jonathan Fruoco
Mikhail Bakhtin
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Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin was a Russian philosopher and literary critic who worked on the philosophy of language, ethics, and literary theory. His writings, on a variety of subjects, inspired schol
Jonathan Fruoco
…the father of English poetry, should rather be thought of as the father of English prose and one of the main creators of the polyphonic novel, in the Bakhtinian sense of the word. Besides his work as a medievalist, Dr. Fruoco has edited and translated for the very first time in French a selection of medieval…
Bakhtin in 1920
Bakhtin Circle, Leningrad, 1924–26.