Mikhail Bakhtin’s Heritage in Literature, Arts, and Psychology

Art and Answerability, the work that would become Mikhail Bakhtin’s literary manifesto, was first published in Den Iskusstva (The Day of the Art) on September 13, 1919. Mikhail Bakhtin’s Heritage in Literature, Arts, and Psychology: Art and Answerability celebrates one hundred years of Bakhtin’s heritage.

This unique book examines the heritage of Mikhail Bakhtin in a variety of disciplines. To articulate the enduring relevance and heritage of the varied works of Bakhtin, sixteen scholars from eight countries have come together, and each has brought his/her unique perspective to the subject. Bakhtin’s work in aesthetics, moral philosophy, linguistics, psychology, carnival, cognition, contextualism, and the history and theory of the novel are present here, as understood by a wide variety of distinguished scholars.

1. Bakhtin’s Theory of the Novel - Howard Mancing
2. Bakhtin’s Poetics - Margarita Marinova
3. Through the Looking-Glass of Bakhtinian Dialogic Re-Accentuation: Russian Translations of Lewis Carroll - Victor Fet
4. Bakhtin reading Cervantes: The Birth of the Novel - Slav N. Gratchev
5. Bakhtinian Re-Accentuation and the Commemoration of the Third Centenary of DQ at the University of Havana (1905) - Ricardo Castells
6. Bakhtin and the Spanish Picaresque: Between La Pícara Justina and Lunes de Aguas - Brian Philips
7. Contextualizing Bakhtin’s Intuitive Discoveries: The End of Grotesque Realism and the Reformation - Yelena Mazour-Matusevich
8. Rejecting a Quixotic End: Kenzaburo Oe’s Bakhtinian Reading of Don Quixote - Yumi Tanaka
9. Power, Privilege, Polyphony: Bakhtin and Non-Hegemonic Voices in 20^th-Century Latin American Literature - Melissa Garr

10. Acting Philosophy: Bakhtin, Jollien, and the Art of Answerability - Michael Eskin
11. Wandering Knights in Space: The Quixotes of Science Fiction - Pablo Carvajal
12. Toward a Philosophy of the Moving Body - Dick McCaw
13. Bakhtin against Dualism: Restoring Humanity to the Subjective Experience - Steven Mills

14. “Live Entering” and Other Acts: On Becoming Intersubjective - Greg Nielsen
15. In Search of Lost Cheekiness: Bakhtin and Foucault as Neo-Cynics - Michael Gardiner
16. The Imagination of a Pluralistic and Dialogic Everyday Experience: Bakhtin with James - James Cresswell and Andrés Haye