Mikhail Bakhtin

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  • Averintsev, Sergei. “Mikhail Baktin: Retrospective and Perspective.” Soviet Literature 8 (1988): 124-28. (A brief retrospective on Bakhtin's contributions to literary theory, written twelve years after his death.)
  • Barsky, Robert F. “Bakhtin as Anarchist? Language, Law, and Creative Impulses in the Work of Mikhail Bakhtin and Rudolph Rocker.” South Atlantic Quarterly 97, nos. 3-4 (summer-fall 1998): 623-42. (Considers the problems of reading Bakhtin as an anarchist, comparing him to Rudolph Rocker and Mikhail Bakunin.)
  • Bauer, Dale M., and McKinstry, Susan Jaret, eds. Feminism, Bakhtin, and the Dialogic. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991, 259 p. (Collection of essays that apply Bakhtinian theory to feminist literary analysis.)
  • Bell, Michael Mayerfeld and Michael Gardiner, eds. Bakhtin and the Human Sciences: No Last Words. London: SAGE Publications, 1998, 235 p. (Includes essays by Dorothy E. Smith, Hwa Yol Jung, and others. Essays by Peter Hitchcock and Michael Bernard-Donals are reprinted above.)
  • Bernstein, Michael Andre. “When the Carnival Turns Bitter: Preliminary Reflections upon the Abject Hero.” Critical Inquiry 10, no. 2 (December 1983): 283-306. (Argues that Bakhtin's carnivalization of values results not only in the breaking down of hierarchies and stale judgments but may result in the lack of a position from which any value can be affirmed.)
  • Bezeczky, Gabor. “Contending Voices in Bakhtin.” Comparative Literature 46, no. 4 (autumn 1994): 321-45. (Examines the “plurarility of equally valid consciousnesses” described in Bakhtin's Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics.)
  • Bocharov, Sergey. “Conversations with Bakhtin.” PMLA 109, no. 5 (October 1994): 1009-1024. (Considers whether Bakhtin was indeed the author of his contested works.)
  • Booth, Wayne C. "Freedom of Interpretation: Bakhtin and the Challenge of Feminist Criticism." Critical Inquiry 9, No. 1 (September 1982): 45-76. (Applies a feminist reading to Bakhtin's analysis of François Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel in his Rabelais and His World.)
  • Cavanaugh, Clare. “The Forms of the Ordinary: Bakhtin, Prosaics and the Lyric.” The Slavic and East European Journal 41, no. 1 (spring 1997): 40-56. (Argues that, for Bakhtin, the lyric poem is the ideal genre to articulate the vision of the world that he calls “prosaic.”)
  • Clark, Katerina, and Holquist, Michael. Mikhail Bakhtin. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984, 398 p. (Discusses Bakhtin's life and works.)
  • Coates, Ruth. “Christian Motifs in Bakhtin's Carnival Writings.” In Christianity in Bakhtin: God and the Exiled Author, pp. 126-51. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. (Provides an extensive reading of Bakhtin's Rabelais and His World as a dialogue with the Christian worldview and as a resource to recuperate meaning under Stalin's repressive regime. The critic examines Bakhtin's treatment of the Christian concept of love, laughter, and the carnival from a Biblical perspective.)
  • Elliot, Shanti. “Carnival and Dialogue in Bakhtin's Poetics of Folklore.” Folklore Forum 30, nos. 1-2 (1999): 129-39. (Provides an overview of how folklorists have relied on Bakhtin's notion of the carnivalesque in the study of folkloric traditions.)
  • Emerson, Caryl. "Russian Orthodoxy and the Early Bakhtin." Religion and Literature 22, Nos. 2-3 (Summer-Autumn 1990): 109-31. (Asserts that Bakhtin's religious beliefs combined spiritual Russian Orthodoxy with academic Western European philosophy and assesses how those beliefs contributed to his cultural and literary theories.)
  • Emerson, Caryl. The First Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin. Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1997, 293 p. (Addresses the critical significance of Bakhtin throughout the twentieth century.)
  • Emerson, Caryl. “Beyond the Cutting Edge: Bakhtin at 107.” The Russian Review 61 (October 2002): 618-22. (Review of Ken Hirschkop and David Shepherd's Bakhtin and Cultural Theory; offers a brief overview of the history of Bakhtin's critical reception.)
  • Emerson, Caryl. “Coming to Terms with Bakhtin's Carnival: Ancient, Modern sub Specie Aeternitatis.” In Bakhtin and the Classics, edited by R. Bracht Branham, pp. 5-26. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2002. (Contextualizes Bakhtin's theory of the carnival in the larger context of theories of the comedic, providing a Bakhtinian reading of Dante's Divine Comedy.)
  • Emerson, Caryl. “Keeping the Self Intact During the Culture Wars: A Centennial Essay for Mikhail Bakhtin.” New Literary History 27, no. 1 (winter 1996): 107-26. (Describes Bakhtin's contributions to the Russian field of “culturology.”)
  • Emerson, Caryl. “Prosaics and the Problem of Form.” The Slavic and East European Journal 41, no. 1 (spring 1997): 16-39. (Argues that throughout his life Bakhtin was preoccupied with the potential of aesthetic form to enable—not merely define or reflect—life.)
  • Emerson, Caryl. “The Next Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin (The View from the Classroom).” Rhetoric Review 19, nos. 1-2 (fall 2002): 12-27. (Explores the pedagogical implications of Bakhtin in the composition classroom.)
  • Emerson, Caryl. “The Outer Word and Inner Speech: Bakhtin, Vygotsky, and the Internalization of Language.” Critical Inquiry 10, no. 2 (December 1983): 245-54. (Examines the contributions Bakhtin and his circle made to the study of linguistics.)
  • Erdinast-Vulcan, Daphna. “Borderlines and Contraband: Bakhtin and the Question of the Subject.” Poetics Today 18, no. 2 (summer 1997): 251-69. (Examines the slippage between “hero-author” and “self-other” in Bakhtin's works “Author and Hero” and Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics.)
  • Falconer, Rachel. “Bakhtin and the Epic Chronotope.” In Face to Face: Bakhtin in Russia and the West, edited by Carol Adlam, et al., pp. 254-72. Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997. (Uses Bakhtin's own “Epic and the Novel” and “Forms of Time and of the Chronotope in the Novel,” to challenge his negative conception of epic.)
  • Felch, Susan M. and Paul Contino, eds. Bakhtin and Religion: A Feeling for Faith. Evanston Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2001, 252 p. (Collection of essays by noted Bakhtin scholars, including Ruth Coates, Graham Pechey, and others.)
  • Godzich, Wlad. “Correcting Kant: Bakhtin and Intercultural Interaction.” Boundary 2 18, no. 1 (spring 1991): 5-17. (Argues that Bakhtin's early theory of “intercultural interaction” conceptualizes modernity as resulting from e interaction with the other; the critic suggests that Bakhtin's theory was a reaction to Kant's three Critiques.)
  • Gossman, Lionel. “Review Essay.” Comparative Literature 38, no. 4 (fall 1986): 337-49. (Review of Katerina Clark and Michael Holquist's biography, Mikhail Bakhtin; provides a brief biography of Bakhtin and summarizes his major contributions.)
  • Graham, Colin. “Epic, Nation, and Empire: Notes Toward a Bakhtinian Critique.” In Bakhtin and Nation, edited by Barry A. Brown, et al., pp. 84-100. Lewisburg, Penn.: Bucknell University Press, 2000. (Discusses the applicability of Bakhtin's theories of monologism and epic to postcolonial theories of literature.)
  • Guéorguiéva-Dikranyan, Névéna. "Historicity and the Historical Novel in the Work of Bakhtin." Critical Studies 2, Nos. 1-2 (1990): 123-36. (Examines Bakhtin's views on literary history through a discussion of the historical novel genre.)
  • Hale, Dorothy J. “Bakhtin in African American Literary Theory.” ELH 61, no. 2 (summer, 1994): 445-71. (Compares Bakhtin's notion of double-voicing to that of W.E.B. DuBois's concept of double consciousness and provides an overview of Bakhtin's influence on such theorists of African American literature as Henry Louis Gates and Barbara Johnson.)
  • Hirschkop, Ken, and Shepherd, David. Bakhtin and Cultural Theory. Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 1989, 224 p. (Collects essays examining Bakhtin's influence on contemporary cultural studies.)
  • Hirschkop, Ken. “A Response to the Forum on Mikhail Bakhtin.” Critical Inquiry 11, no. 4 (June 1983): 672-78. (Compares literary theorists' visions of what Bakhtin's dialogic looks like in practice.)
  • Hirschkop, Ken. “Bakhtin Myths, or, Why We All Need Alibis.” South Atlantic Quarterly 97, nos. 3-4 (summer-fall 1998): 579-98. (Argues that Bakhtin has been mythologized, and examines the myths that both Bakhtin and his followers held dear.)
  • Hirschkop, Ken and David Shepherd, eds. Bakhtin and Cultural Theory Manchester England: Manchester University Press, 2001, 276 p. (Essay collection with articles by Terry Eagleton, Ann Jefferson, Clair Wills, and others.)
  • Hitchcock, Peter. “Introduction: Bakhtin/‘Bakhtin.’” South Atlantic Quarterly 97, nos. 3-4 (summer-fall 1997): 511-36. (Examines the ways in which conceptualizing Bakhtin's oeuvre as a comprehensive, internally consistent project undermines the contributions of his complex, contradictory theories.)
  • Holquist, Michael. Introduction to The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by M. M. Bakhtin, edited and translated by Michael Holquist and Caryl Emerson, pp. xv-xxxiv. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981. (Provides a biographical sketch of Bakhtin and explications of the ideas presented in the essays that make up The Dialogic Imagination.)
  • Holquist, Michael. “Afterword: A Two-Faced Hermes.” South Atlantic Quarterly 97, nos. 3-4 (summer-fall 1998): 781-89. (Summarizes the viewpoints of several major critics on Bakhtin.)
  • Holquist, Michael. “Answering as Authoring: Mikhail Bakhtin's Trans-Linguistics.” Critical Inquiry 10, no. 2 (December 1983): 307-19. (Describes the significance of the utterance, or speech act, for Bakhtin.)
  • Lachmann, Renate. "Bakhtin and Carnival: Culture as Counter-Culture." Cultural Critique 11 (Winter 1989–1990): 115-52. (Discusses Bakhtin's concepts of the carnivalesque and folk culture, focusing on his book Rabelais and His World.)
  • Linneberg, Arild. “‘Lovens lange arm’—The Long of Arm of the Law: The Hidden Discourse of the Law in Bakhtin's Theory of the Novel.” In The Novelness of Bakhtin, edited by Jørgen Bruhn and Jan Lundquist, pp. 89-105. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2001. (A discussion of the theory of law implicit in Bakhtin's work.)
  • Lodge, David. After Bakhtin: Essays on Fiction and Criticism. New York: Routledge, 1990, 198 p. (Traces the development of Bakhtin's career and applies Bakhtinian theory to a variety of literary works.)
  • Makhlin, Vitalii. “Face to Face: Bakhtin's Programme and the Architectonics of Being-as-Event in the Twentieth Century.” In Face to Face: Bakhtin in Russia and the West, edited by Carol Adlam, et al., pp. 45-53. Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997. (Describes Bakhtin's concept of ‘being-as-event’ and places both Bakhtin and his thought in historical and political context.)
  • Makhlin, Vitalii. “Questions and Answers: Bakhtin from the Beginning, at the End of the Century.” The South Atlantic Quarterly 97, nos. 3-4 (summer 1998): 773-79. (Considers Bakhtin's importance as a theorist through the problem of authorship.)
  • Morson, Gary Saul. "Bakhtin, Genres, and Temporality." New Literary History 22, No. 4 (Autumn 1991): 1071–92. (Maintains that Bakhtin's devotion to the novel genre coincides with his aversion to totalizing conceptions of language and culture because of the novel's openness to polyphony, particularity, and the potentiality of time.)
  • Morson, Gary Saul. “Bakhtin and the Present Moment.” The American Scholar 60, no. 2 (spring 1991): 201-22. (Summarizes the significance of Bakhtin for a lay audience.)
  • Morson, Gary Saul. “Who Speaks for Bakhtin? A Dialogic Introduction.” Critical Inquiry 10, no. 2 (December 1983): 225-43. (Presents a dialogue between the author and another scholar on the significance of the Bakhtin Circle's theories of language.)
  • Morson, Gary Saul and Caryl Emerson, eds. Rethinking Bakhtin: Extensions and Challenges. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1989, 330 p. (Anthology containing essays by several important scholars of Bakhtin's work.)
  • Morson, Gary Saul and Caryl Emerson. Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1990, 530 p. (Examines Bakhtin's theories of genre and form.)
  • Nagy, Gregory. “Reading Bakhtin Reading the Classics; An Epic Fate for Conveyors of the Heroic Past.” In Bakhtin and the Classics, edited by R. Bracht Branham, pp. 71-96. Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2002. (Argues that Bakhtin does not differentiate between classical and non-classical literature, and uses Bakhtin's theory of the epic to discuss such works as Homer's Odyssey.)
  • Nielsen, Greg Marc. The Norms of Answerability: Social Theory Between Bakhtin and Habermas. Albany, N. Y.: State University of New York Press, 2002, 250 p. (Book-length study examining Bakhtin's and Jurgen Habermas's contributions to social theory.)
  • Pan'kov, Nikolai. “Archive Material on Bakhtin's Nevel Period.” The South Atlantic Quarterly 97, nos. 3-4 (summer 1998): 733-52. (A discussion of archival documents from Bakhtin's days as a student.)
  • Patterson, David. Literature and Spirit: Essays on Bakhtin and His Contemporaries. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988, 166 p. (Collection of essays connecting Bakhtin with other critical and literary figures.)
  • Patterson, David. Literature and Spirit: Essays on Bakhtin and His Contemporaries, Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1988, 166 p. (Book-length study of Bakhtin's philosophy and literary criticism; compares him to such thinkers as Martin Heidegger and Michel Foucault.)
  • Patterson, David. “Mikhail Bakhtin and Dialogical Dimensions of the Novel.” The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 45, no. 2 (winter 1985): 131-38. (Suggests that, for Bakhtin, the novel is not simply a genre—or even an anti-genre—but a dynamic force that carries with it the search for truth.)
  • Peterson, Dale E. “Underground Notes: Dostoevsky, Bakhtin, and the African American Confessional Novel.” In Bakhtin and the Nation, edited by the San Diego Bakhtin Circle, pp. 31-46. Lewisburg, Penn.: Bucknell University Press, 2000. (Suggests that Bakhtin's theory of double voicing, as demonstrated by his study of Dostoevsky, provides a useful model for reading African American fiction.)
  • Poole, Brian. “Bakhtin and Cassirer: The Philosophical Origins of Bakhtin's Carnival Messianism.” The South Atlantic Quarterly 97, nos. 3-4 (summer-fall, 1998): 537-78. (Compares Bakthin to German philosopher Ernst Cassirer and explores the philosophical and theological underpinnings of Bakhtin's notion of the carnivalesque.)
  • Rutland, Barry. "Bakhtinian Categories and the Discourse of Postmodernism." Critical Studies 2, Nos. 1-2 (1990): 123-36. (Discusses Bakhtin in terms of postmodernism as defined by Jean-François Lyotard in his The Postmodern Condition.)
  • San Juan, Jr., E. “Bakhtin: Uttering the “(Into)nation” of the Nation/People.” In Bakhtin and the Nation, edited by the San Diego Bakhtin Circle, pp. 118-33. Lewisburg, Penn.: Bucknell University Press, 2000. (A study of nationalist movements as dialogic speech acts.)
  • Schuster, Charles. “Mikhail Bakhtin as Rhetorical Theorist.” College English 47, no. 6 (October 1985): 594-607. (Examines the concept of the dialogic in Bakhtin and discusses the implications for the teacher of rhetoric.)
  • Shevtsova, Maria. "Dialogism in the Novel and Bakhtin's Theory of Culture." New Literary History 23, No. 3 (Summer 1992): 747-63. (Examines how Bakhtin's linguistic theory is derived from his cultural theory, which holds that language is a corporal entity originating in the speech of popular culture.)
  • Stewart, Susan. “Shouts on the Street: Bakhtin's Anti-Linguistics.” Critical Inquiry 10, no. 2 (December 1983): 265-81. (An exploration of Bakhtin's critique of the abstract.)
  • Wall, Anthony, and Clive Thomson. “Cleaning Up Bakhtin's Carnival Act.” Diacritics 23, no. 2 (summer 1993): 47-70. (Summarizes contemporary scholarship on Bakhtin.)
  • Wesling, Donald. Bakhtin and the Social Moorings of Poetry, Lewisburg, Penn.: Bucknell University Press, 2003, 170 p. (Book-length study using Bakhtin to discuss the writings of ethnic and marginalized poets.)
  • Wesling, Donald. “Mikhail Bakhtin and the Social Poetics of Dialect.” Papers on Language and Literature 29, no. 3 (summer 1993): 303-22. (Employs Bakhtin's concept of social heteroglossia to read poetry in dialect.)
  • White, Allon. "Bakhtin, Sociolinguistics and Deconstruction." In The Theory of Reading, edited by Frank Gloversmith, pp. 123-46. New Jersey: Barnes and Noble, 1984. (Addresses how Bakhtin's ideas "prefigured both structuralist and deconstructionist views of the language of literature.")
  • Zylko, Boguslaw. "The Author-Hero Relation in Bakhtin's Dialogical Poetics." Critical Studies 2, Nos. 1-2 (1990): 65-76. (Asserts that for Bakhtin, "the author sees and knows more than the hero, and this asymmetry is an essential condition of creativity, the real reservoir of all artistic possibilities.")

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