Bakhtin and cultural theory

Abstract

1. Bakhtin in the sober light of day (introduction to the revised edition) - Ken Hirschkop 2. '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'kov 3. Not the novel: Bakhtin, poetry, truth, God - Graham Pechey 4. 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 Poole 5. Bakhtin and the reader- David Shepherd 6. Dialogic subversion: Bakhtin, the novel and Gertrude Stein - Nancy Glazener 7. Bakhtin and the history of language - Tony Crowley 8. Bodymattters: self and other in Bakhtin, Sartre and Barthes - Ann Jefferson 9. Bakhtin, Schopenhauer, Kundera - Terry Eagleton 10. Bibliographical essay - Carol Adlam