The concept of "context" in "Problems of Dostoevsky’s creative art" (1929) and "Problems of Dostoevsky’s poetics" (1963) by Mikhail Bakhtin

This article is epistemological in nature. It analyzes the concept of “context” in the works by M.M. Bakhtin “Problems of Dostoevsky’s Creative Art” (1929) and “Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics” (1963). The relevance of the chosen topic is largely due to the growing interest of linguists in the analyzed concept. Thus, the article highlights the theories of context developed in the interpretive semantics of François Rastier and in the critical discourse analysis of Thön van Dyck. In Bakhtin’s works mentioned above, notion of “context” is central; the thinker considers out-of-verbal and verbal context. At the same time, both contexts are mediated by artistic architectonics, form, vision or artistic will of the author.