Understanding Bakhtin, Understanding Modernism

Philippe Birgy is a Professor at the University of Toulouse-Jean Jaures, France, where he teaches critical methodology and literary theory in the English Department and English and American philosophy in the Philosophy Department. He is the author of "Une terrible beauté" : les modernistes anglais à l’épreuve de la critique girardienne (2005) and the editor of Revoir 14 : images après tout (2017) and Samuel Beckett: Drama as Philosophical Endgame? (2011).

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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


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