Mikhail Bakhtins Heritage in Literature, Arts, and Psychology

Introduction - 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

1. Acting Philosophy: Bakhtin, Jollien, and the Art of Answerability - Michael Eskin
2. Wandering Knights in Space: The Quixotes of Science Fiction - Pablo Carvajal
3. Toward a Philosophy of the Moving Body - Dick McCaw
4. Bakhtin against Dualism: Restoring Humanity to the Subjective Experience - Steven Mills

Part III: Psychology

1. “Live Entering” and Other Acts: On Becoming Intersubjective - Greg Nielsen
2. In Search of Lost Cheekiness: Bakhtin and Foucault as Neo-Cynics - Michael Gardiner
3. The Imagination of a Pluralistic and Dialogic Everyday Experience: Bakhtin with James - James Cresswell and Andrés Haye

This book provides a categorical examination of Bakhtinian thought as it originates in the humanities and social sciences. International in scope and constructed according to multidisciplinary epistemologies, the volume “articulate[s] the enduring relevance and heritage of the great and varied works of Bakhtin,” to quote from the editors' introduction. The volume is divided into three parts, each dealing with one of the three broad areas specified in the title. The longest and most notable is the first part, "Bakhtin’s Heritage in Literature," in which both editors provide the foundational concepts of that heritage (i.e., Bakhtin’s idiosyncratic theorizing of the novel, with Cervantes functioning as a corresponding influence). Part 2 examines Bakhtin’s heritage in philosophy and in film and acting, and part 3 addresses the Bakhtin tradition within the psychology of mind and discourse. Though other works—such as Deborah Haynes’s Bakhtin Reframed (2013) and Michael Holquists’s Dialogism: Bakhtin and His World (CH, Apr'91, 28-4340)—are comparable in terms of the themes they take on, Gratchev and Mancing's is the first volume in which multiple scholars in various fields and from an array of cultures provide unfettered analysis of the lineage of Bakhtin’s theories.



Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.