The First Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin

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Princeton University Press

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491_9780691050492

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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: Bakhtins 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 Bakhtins 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 Bakhtins reception in Russia, from his earliest publication in 1929 until his death, and his posthumous rediscovery. After a reception-history of Bakhtins 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 Bakhtins method, which was much more than a tool of criticism: it will tell you how to teach, write, live, talk, think.

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