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Understanding Bakhtin, Understanding Modernism
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Explores and illuminates the impact of the Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin on our understanding of literary modernism.
This volume explores the subject of modernism as seen through the lens of Bakhtinian criticism and in doing so offers a rounded and up-to-date example of the application of Bakhtinian theory to a field of research. The contributors consider the global spread of modernism and the variety of its manifestations as well as modernism's relationship to popular culture and its collective elaboration, which are dominant concerns in Bakhtin's thinking.
As with other volumes in the Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism series, the volume is divided into three parts. Part 1 provides readings of Bakhtin's work in the context of literary modernism. Part 2 features case studies of modernist art and artists and their relation to Bakhtinian theory. The final part provides a glossary of key terms in Bakhtin's work.
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Bakhtin at Interpretative Crossroads
Philippe Birgy (University of Toulouse 2 Jean Jaures, France)
Part I: Conceptualizing Bakhtin
1. From Heteroglossia to Contemporaneity: Bakhtin's Modernist History of the Novel
Ken Hirschkop (University of Waterloo, Canada)
2. Mikhail Bakhtin and the History of Literature: The Past in the Present and the Present in the Past
Anker Gemzoe (Aalborg University, Denmark)
3. On Death and Turn-Taking in Conversation: The Notion of Succession (smena) in Bakhtin's Late Philosophy
Sergeiy Sandler (Independent Scholar)
4. Bakhtin's Chronotope: Crisis-time and Great Time in Benjamin and Hölderlin
Jeremy Tambling (University of Manchester, UK)
5. Bakhtin's Scenarios of Selfhood: Modernism between Intersubjectivity and Transindividuality
Ilya Kliger (Independent Scholar)
6. Anticipation and Prevention: A Dialogical Approach to the Modern Unconscious
Jonathan Hall (University of Sheffield, UK)
7. Bakhtin, Habermas, and the “Revenge of the Real”
Michael E. Gardiner (Independent Scholar)
8. Decolonizing Aesthetics: Bakhtin, Modernism, and Anti-Colonial Poetics
Peter Hitchcock (Baruch College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, USA)
Part II: Bakhtin and Modernism
9. “New Philosophical Wonder”: Bakhtin, Shklovsky, and the Re-enchantment of the World
Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan (Independent Scholar)
10. Gide, Bakhtin, and the Threshold of Modernism
Tara Collington (University of Waterloo, Canada)
11. Sensation and Abstraction: The Station as a Modernist Chronotope
Anker Gemzoe (Aalborg University, Denmark)
12. Bakhtin and the Protomodernist Dickens from an Anthropological Perspective
Michael Hollington (University of Toulouse-Le Mirail, France)
13. “An Irish clown, a great joker at the universe”: Joyce and the Modern Carnival
Yann Tholoniat (Université de Lorraine, France)
14. Mikhaïl Bakhtin, Modern Dance, and the Body's Unmediated Presence in the World
Robert Barsky (Vanderbilt University, USA) and Marsha Barsky (Kennesaw State University, USA)
Part III: Glossary
15. Introduction to the Glossary
Sergeiy Sandler
16. Architectonics (inc. Event, I-for-myself, I-for-the-other and Other-for-me)
Ken Hirschkop
17. Author and Hero (inc. Hero and Authorship)
Sergeiy Sandler
18. Becoming
Jonathan Hall
19. Carnival
Yann Tholoniat
20. Chronotope
Sergeiy Sandler
21. Completion
Sergeiy Sandler
22. Contemporaneity
Ken Hirschkop
23 Deed
Sergeiy Sandler
24 Dialogue/Dialogical/Dialogization
Ken Hirschkop
25 Genre
Sergeiy Sandler
26 Heteroglossia
Ken Hirschkop
27 I and Other
Philippe Birgy
28 Menippean Satire
Yann Tholoniat
29 Outsidedness
Sergeiy Sandler
30 Present/Past/Future
Philippe Birgy
31 Responsibility/Answerability
Philippe Birgy
32 Style
Ken Hirschkop
33 Utterance
Sergeiy Sandler
34 Word/Discourse
Sergeiy Sandler
Index
Product details
| Published | 05 Oct 2023 |
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| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 312 |
| ISBN | 9781501381669 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Series | Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
About the contributors
Reviews
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From the novel to poetry, dance, and philosophy, this wide-ranging volume seeks to recover and mobilize the resources of Bakhtinian thought in making sense of modernism and modernity. With essays by some of the most visible Bakhtin scholars today, this book is for all those who wish to explore his work, its contexts, and its continuous impact.
Galin Tihanov, George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature, Queen Mary University of London, UK
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A very timely and helpful volume by an impressive range of scholars, which clarifies Bakhtin's relationship to modernity and to modernist literature as well as making connections with some of the most prominent European thinkers on the issue. The inclusion of a glossary of some of Bakhtin's key terminology provides an excellent resource for those seeking to make sense of this influential thinker without falling prey to the many misconceptions that have commonly dogged critical work in the field.
Craig Brandist, Professor of Cultural Theory and Intellectual History and Director of the Bakhtin Centre, University of Sheffield, UK











