title: The philosopher masked as literary theorist: 'cunning intelligence' (metis) instantiated in Bakhtin's rhetorical style
abstract: This dissertation discusses and analyses Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin's conscious strategy of self-fashioning and reinvention, which is realised in his life and supported by the theoretical constructs contained in his <em>Collected Works</em>. It addresses the ambiguities and uncertainties in Bakhtin's life and work and uses two aspects of his philosophical approach and constructs to explicate these inconsistencies: his theory of identity and his theory of language. The analytical tools used to 
journal: Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford)