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Book SynopsisArt and Answerability, the work that would become Mikhail Bakhtin's literary manifesto, was first published in Den Iskusstva (The Day of the Art) on September 13, 1919. Mikhail Bakhtin's Heritage in Literature, Arts, and Psychology: Art and Answerability celebrates one hundred years of Bakhtin's heritage.This unique book examines the heritage of Mikhail Bakhtin in a variety of disciplines. To articulate the enduring relevance and heritage of the varied works of Bakhtin, sixteen scholars from eight countries have come together, and each has brought his/her unique perspective to the subject. Bakhtin's work in aesthetics, moral philosophy, linguistics, psychology, carnival, cognition, contextualism, and the history and theory of the novel are present here, as understood by a wide variety of distinguished scholars.
Trade ReviewA wonderful collection of essays that connects the traditional Bakhtin of philology, social ethics, and grotesque realism with more recent themes: quixotic films, a poet’s monologism, the moving body. Global in scope, it celebrates that larger, more multi-voiced and fearless world that Bakhtin himself dreamed of but never knew. -- Caryl Emerson, A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University
This fascinating volume successfully demonstrates the growing influence of Mikhail Bakhtin across diverse disciplines, featuring scholarship in narratology, poetics, film, popular culture, psychology, philosophy, disability studies as well as from a variety of literary traditions. Moreover, it exemplifies Bakhtin’s global impact, including scholars from Europe, Eastern Europe, the Americas, and Asia who take up topics that are just as geographically diverse. Its robust global and comparative focus signals the power of Bakhtin’s ideas to continue to inspire creative, new applications that will change how we understand the arts, ourselves, and the world. -- Scott Pollard, Christopher Newport University
In the 80s, rediscovering Bakhtin led criticism out of the post-structuralist 'wilderness.' Now Gratchev and Mancing’s wide-ranging volume rescues us from the crisis in the humanities with a roadmap for deep interdisciplinarity that crisscrosses literature, other arts, philosophy, and psychology. While mirroring Bakhtin’s breadth, this collection finds its underlying leitmotif in his spiritual twin, Miguel de Cervantes. Bravo! -- William Childers, Brooklyn College
Table of ContentsIntroduction - Slav N. Gratchev and Howard Mancing Part I: Bakhtin’s Heritage in Literature 1.Bakhtin’s Theory of the Novel - Howard Mancing 2.Bakhtin’s Poetics - Margarita Marinova 3.Through the Looking-Glass of Bakhtinian Dialogic Re-Accentuation: Russian Translations of Lewis Carroll - Victor Fet 4.Bakhtin reading Cervantes: The Birth of the Novel - Slav N. Gratchev 5.Bakhtinian Re-Accentuation and the Commemoration of the Third Centenary of DQ at the University of Havana (1905) - Ricardo Castells 6.Bakhtin and the Spanish Picaresque: Between La Pícara Justina and Lunes de Aguas - Brian Philips 7.Contextualizing Bakhtin’s Intuitive Discoveries: The End of Grotesque Realism and the Reformation - Yelena Mazour-Matusevich 8.Rejecting a Quixotic End: Kenzaburo Oe’s Bakhtinian Reading of Don Quixote - Yumi Tanaka 9.Power, Privilege, Polyphony: Bakhtin and Non-Hegemonic Voices in 20th-Century Latin American Literature - Melissa Garr Part II: Bakhtin’s Heritage in Arts and Philosophy 10.Acting Philosophy: Bakhtin, Jollien, and the Art of Answerability - Michael Eskin 11.Wandering Knights in Space: The Quixotes of Science Fiction - Pablo Carvajal 12.Toward a Philosophy of the Moving Body - Dick McCaw 13.Bakhtin against Dualism: Restoring Humanity to the Subjective Experience - Steven Mills Part III: Psychology 14.“Live Entering” and Other Acts: On Becoming Intersubjective - Greg Nielsen 15.In Search of Lost Cheekiness: Bakhtin and Foucault as Neo-Cynics - Michael Gardiner 16.The Imagination of a Pluralistic and Dialogic Everyday Experience: Bakhtin with James - James Cresswell and Andrés Haye
