Mihail Bahtin

Mihail Bahtin (died 1975 March 7 in Moscow, Russia) was a cultural theorist of carnival and rebellion. Especially remembered for his work on Fyodor Dostoevsky, where he expressed his belief in a mutual relation between meaning and context, involving the author, the work, & the reader, each constantly affecting and influencing the others, and the whole mediated by existing political/social forces.