The First Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin / / Caryl Emerson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Emerson, Caryl,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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."

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION. East Meets West in the Ex-USSR -- PART ONE: EAXTHHOBEJJEHHE, EAXTHHHCTHKA, EAXTHHOJIOfHH: BAKHTIN STUDIES, BAKHTINISTICS, BAKHTINOLOGY -- CHAPTER 1. The Russians Reclaim Bakhtin, 1975 to the Jubilee -- CHAPTER 2. Retrospective: Domestic Reception during Bakhtin's Life -- PART TWO: LITERATURE FADES, PHILOSOPHY MOVES TO THE FORE (REWORKING THREE PROBLEMATIC AREAS) -- CHAPTER 3. Polyphony, Dialogism, Dostoevsky -- CHAPTER 4. Carnival: Open-ended Bodies and Anachronistic Histories -- CHAPTER 5. BHEHAOДИMOCTЬ: "Outsideness" as the Ethical Dimension of Art (Bakhtin and the Aesthetic Moment) -- AFTERWORD. One Year Later: The Prospects for Bakhtin's HHOHayica [inonauka], or "Science in Some Other Way" -- Index