The First Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin

Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-691-05049-2
Verlag: Princeton University Press

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 509 g

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."

Autoren/Hrsg.

Emerson, Caryl

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction East Meets West in the Ex-USSR

PART ONE: XXX: BAKHTIN STUDIES, BAKHTINISTICS, BAKHTINOLOGY

Chapter One The Russians Reclaim Bakhtin,

1975 to the Jubilee

The Three Worlds of Mikhail Bakhtin

The Post-Stalinist Revival of the Russian

Literary Profession

The 1990s: The Russian Bakhtin Industry Takes Stock

Chapter Two Retrospective: Domestic

Reception during Bakhtin's Life

Dostoevsky, I (1929)

Dostoevsky, II (1963)

Rabelais and Folk Culture

The 1975 Anthology: Essays on the Novel

Posthumous: The First Manuscripts and Final Essays

PART TWO: LITERATURE FADES, PHILOSOPHY MOVES TO THE FORE (REWORKING THREE PROBLEMATIC AREAS)

Chapter Three Polyphony, Dialogism,

Dostoevsky

Can Polyphony Exist? If So, Does It Apply?

Unsympathetic Case Studies and Suspicious

Close Readings

"The Torments of Dialogue": In Defense of Bakhtin

Chapter Four Carnival: Open-ended Bodies and Anachronistic Histories

Pro: Carnival as Incarnation, Eucharist,

Sacral Myth

Contra: Demonization, Stalinization

Neither For nor Against: Carnival as

Analytic Device

Chapter Five XXX: "Outsideness" as the

Ethical Dimension of Art (Bakhtin and the

Aesthetic Moment)

Belatedly Finding a Place for the Very Early Bakhtin

Outsideness: What It Is and Is Not

The Problem of Form

The Logic of Aesthetic Form and

"Consummation as a Type of Dying"

Afterword One Year Later: The Prospects for

Bakhtin's XXXHOHayka [inonauka], or "Science in Some Other Way"

Index