This book examines, from the angle of more than a dozen perspectives, the heritage of Mikhail Bakhtin, one of the most prominent thinkers and influential literary figures of the twentieth century. It opens a new critical discourse that reshapes our...
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This book examines, from the angle of more than a dozen perspectives, the heritage of Mikhail Bakhtin, one of the most prominent thinkers and influential literary figures of the twentieth century. It opens a new critical discourse that reshapes our current understanding of Bakhtin. Cover -- Mikhail Bakhtin'sHeritage in Literature,Arts, and Psychology -- Mikhail Bakhtin'sHeritage in Literature,Arts, and Psychology: Art and Answerability -- Contents -- Introduction -- Bakhtin's Heritage in Literature -- Chapter 1 -- Bakhtin's Theory of the Novel -- Critical Approaches to Bakhtin's Theory of the Novel -- The Novel as Genre -- The Prehistory of the Novel in Antiquity and the Middle Ages -- The Emergence of the Novel in the Renaissance -- Bakhtin's Two Stylistic Lines -- The Novel -- The Polyphonic Novel -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 2 -- The Art and Answerability of Bakhtin's Poetics -- "Discourse in Poetry and Discourse in the Novel" -- "On Mayakovsky" -- Bakhtin's Dialogues with Duvakin -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3 -- Russian Translations of Lewis Carroll's Alice Books -- Re-accentuation Devices -- How to Re-accentuate Parody Poetry: From Pushkin to "A House That Zhuk Built" -- Re-accentuation as an Evolving Cultural Dialogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4 -- Bakhtin Reading Cervantes -- Cervantes and Bakhtin -- Don Quixote and Bakhtin's Theory of the Novel -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 5 -- Bakhtinian Re-Accentuation and the Commemoration of the Third Centenary of Don Quixote at the University of Havana (1905) -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 6 -- Bakhtin and the Spanish Picaresque -- Lunes de Aguas or Carnival Prostituted -- Justina's Burlesque Show Medicates from the Margins -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 7 -- Contextualizing Bakhtin's Intuitive Discoveries -- Bakhtin's Theory of Grotesque Realism -- Catholic Grotesque? -- The Grotesque and the Protestant Reformation -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 8 -- Rejecting a Quixotic End -- Don Quixote, Bakhtin, and Oe -- Mournful Countenance as a Response to Bakhtin's Reading of Don Quixote.
