Mikhail Bakhtan

Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Title Page......Page 6
Copyright Page......Page 7
Table of Contents......Page 8
Series editor’s preface......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 13
Abbreviations......Page 14
1.Why Bakhtin?......Page 16
2.Who was Bakhtin?......Page 22
 Petrograd, Nevel and Vitebsk......Page 25
 Leningrad and the Disputed Texts......Page 27
 Dostoevsky, Arrest and Exile......Page 29
 Another form of Exile......Page 32
 Rediscovery and Rehabilitation......Page 34
3.Selves and others......Page 38
 Theoreticism and Eventness......Page 39
 Being, The Self and Answerability......Page 43
 The Other......Page 47
 Finalization And Unfinalizability......Page 51
 Notes......Page 54
 Philosophy and Literature......Page 55
 From Life Into Art …......Page 58
 Architectonics and the Aesthetics of Verbal Art......Page 61
 Architectonics and Form......Page 64
 … From Art Into Life......Page 67
 Note......Page 71
5.Translinguistics......Page 72
 Bakhtin, Voloshinov and the Linguistic Turn......Page 73
 The Utterance......Page 78
 The Social......Page 81
 The Sign......Page 83
 Consciousness......Page 85
6.Dialogism......Page 90
 Dostoevsky: From Polyphony to Dialogism......Page 91
 Voice and Embodiment......Page 96
 Dialogic Discourse in the Novel......Page 102
7.Heteroglossia and the novel......Page 108
 Polyglossia......Page 109
 Heteroglossia......Page 112
 Heteroglossia and the Novel......Page 116
 Interlude: Hybrid Constructions in Dickens......Page 120
 Novelization......Page 123
 Notes......Page 126
8.Chronotope......Page 127
 Time (Mostly) and Space......Page 128
 Adventure-Time and Biographical Time on the Road to Becoming......Page 130
 Chronotope and History......Page 136
 Chronotope and Language......Page 140
 Note......Page 143
9.Carnival......Page 144
 The Context(s) of Carnival......Page 146
 Carnival, Carnivalization and Laughter......Page 149
 Grotesque Realism......Page 152
 The Body in Carnival......Page 155
10.Genre......Page 160
 Conditions of Performance and Perception......Page 161
 The Novel (Again)......Page 163
 Chronotope, Carnival and Genre......Page 165
 Speech Genres and Literary Genres......Page 167
11.After Bakhtin......Page 173
 Literary Studies after Bakhtin ......Page 175
 The Humanities after Bakhtin: Genre and Discipline......Page 179
 Last Words: The World Beyond the Humanities......Page 184
Further reading......Page 188
Index......Page 196