The First Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-05049-2 (ISBN)
Among Western critics, Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) needs no introduction. His name has been invoked in literary and cultural studies across the ideological spectrum, from old-fashioned humanist to structuralist to postmodernist. In this candid assessment of his place in Russian and Western thought, Caryl Emerson brings to light what might be unfamiliar to the non-Russian reader: Bakhtin's foundational ideas, forged in the early revolutionary years, yet hardly altered in his lifetime. With the collapse of the Soviet system, a truer sense of Bakhtin's contribution may now be judged in the context of its origins and its contemporary Russian "reclamation." A foremost Bakhtin authority, Caryl Emerson mines extensive Russian sources to explore Bakhtin's reception in Russia, from his earliest publication in 1929 until his death, and his posthumous rediscovery.
After a reception-history of Bakhtin's published work, she examines the role of his ideas in the post-Stalinist revival of the Russian literary profession, concentrating on the most provocative rethinkings of three major concepts in his world: dialogue and polyphony; carnival; and "outsideness," a position Bakhtin considered essential to both ethics and aesthetics. Finally, she speculates on the future of Bakhtin's method, which was much more than a tool of criticism: it will "tell you how to teach, write, live, talk, think."
Caryl Emerson is A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University. She is the author, with Gary Saul Morson, of Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics, and is a primary translator of Bakhtin into English. She has also written on Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, the Russian critical tradition, and Russian music.
Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction East Meets West in the Ex-USSR PART ONE: XXX: BAKHTIN STUDIES, BAKHTINISTICS, BAKHTINOLOGY Chapter One The Russians Reclaim Bakhtin, 1975 to the Jubilee The Three Worlds of Mikhail Bakhtin The Post-Stalinist Revival of the Russian Literary Profession The 1990s: The Russian Bakhtin Industry Takes Stock Chapter Two Retrospective: Domestic Reception during Bakhtin's Life Dostoevsky, I (1929) Dostoevsky, II (1963) Rabelais and Folk Culture The 1975 Anthology: Essays on the Novel Posthumous: The First Manuscripts and Final Essays PART TWO: LITERATURE FADES, PHILOSOPHY MOVES TO THE FORE (REWORKING THREE PROBLEMATIC AREAS) Chapter Three Polyphony, Dialogism, Dostoevsky Can Polyphony Exist? If So, Does It Apply? Unsympathetic Case Studies and Suspicious Close Readings "The Torments of Dialogue": In Defense of Bakhtin Chapter Four Carnival: Open-ended Bodies and Anachronistic Histories Pro: Carnival as Incarnation, Eucharist, Sacral Myth Contra: Demonization, Stalinization Neither For nor Against: Carnival as Analytic Device Chapter Five XXX: "Outsideness" as the Ethical Dimension of Art (Bakhtin and the Aesthetic Moment) Belatedly Finding a Place for the Very Early Bakhtin Outsideness: What It Is and Is Not The Problem of Form The Logic of Aesthetic Form and "Consummation as a Type of Dying" Afterword One Year Later: The Prospects for Bakhtin's XXXHOHayka [inonauka], or "Science in Some Other Way" Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 2.4.2000 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New Jersey |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 197 x 254 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-691-05049-X / 069105049X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-691-05049-2 / 9780691050492 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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