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Informationen zum Autor Ken Hirschkop is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Manchester David Shepherd is Professor of Russian and Director of the Bakhtin Centre at the University of Sheffield Klappentext An important collection of essays which treats Bakhtin as a provocative theorist whose work must be tested, explored and compared with the work of others. Contributors assess Bakhtin's contribution to difficult issues of colonialism, feminism, reception theory and theories of the body, amongst others. New articles explore the origins, previously unacknowledged, of Bakhtin's theory of language and provide a vivid account of the dramatic scandal surrounding Bakhtin's thesis on Rabelais. Contains dramatic new material, drawn from post-perestroika sources, which demythologizes the image of this important writer. A new bibliographical essay and introduction bring the English-language reader up-to-date with the progress of Bakhtin studies in Russia. Zusammenfassung Contributors with a wide range of interests assess Mikhail Bakhtin's contribution to issues of colonialism! feminism! reception theory and theories of the body. This second edition takes advatage of new material on Bakhtin available after perestroika. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Bakhtin in the sober light of day (introduction to the revised edition) - Ken Hirschkop2. 'Everything else depends on how this business turns out...': the defence of Mikhail Bakhtin's dissertation as real event, as high drama, and as academic comedy - Nikolai Pan'kov3. Not the novel: Bakhtin, poetry, truth, God - Graham Pechey4. From phenomenology to dialogue: Max Scheler's phenomenological tradition and Mikhail Bakhtin's development from 'Towards a philosophy of the act' to his study of Dostoevsky - Brian Poole5. Bakhtin and the reader- David Shepherd6. Dialogic subversion: Bakhtin, the novel and Gertrude Stein - Nancy Glazener7. Bakhtin and the history of language - Tony Crowley8. Bodymattters: self and other in Bakhtin, Sartre and Barthes - Ann Jefferson9. Bakhtin, Schopenhauer, Kundera - Terry Eagleton10. Bibliographical essay - Carol Adlam...
