Michael Holquist is Professor of Comparative and Slavic Literature at Yale University. He is the author of Dostoevsky and the Novel and Mikhail Bakhtin (with Katerina Clark), and has also edited three collections of Bakhtin's writings.

'Holquist is an exceedingly thoughtful interpreter of Bakhtin ... Dialogism will certainly be welcomed by all those many readers fascinated by the many faces of Mikhail Bakhtin.' - Slavic and East European Journal 'With only two comprehensive accounts of Bakhtin's contributions available in the West ... Holquist's attempt to provide a contextualized summary of Bakhtin's work is a formidable accomplishment in its own right, resulting in a volume that will be of interest for those seeking a unified, general understanding of Bakhtin.' - Discourse Studies

• General editor's preface Introduction Introduction to the second edition 1. Bakhtin's life 2. Existence as dialogue 3. Language as dialogue 4. Novelness as dialogue: The novel of education and the education of the novel 5. The dialogue of history and poetics 6. Authoring as dialogue: The architectonics of answerability 7. The Heteroglossia Called Bakhtin Notes Select Bibliography Index

Michael Holquist is Professor of Comparative and Slavic Literature at Yale University. He is the author of Dostoevsky and the Novel and Mikhail Bakhtin (with Katerina Clark), and has also edited three collections of Bakhtin's writings.

'Holquist is an exceedingly thoughtful interpreter of Bakhtin ... Dialogism will certainly be welcomed by all those many readers fascinated by the many faces of Mikhail Bakhtin.' - Slavic and East European Journal 'With only two comprehensive accounts of Bakhtin's contributions available in the West ... Holquist's attempt to provide a contextualized summary of Bakhtin's work is a formidable accomplishment in its own right, resulting in a volume that will be of interest for those seeking a unified, general understanding of Bakhtin.' - Discourse Studies

• General editor's preface Introduction Introduction to the second edition 1. Bakhtin's life 2. Existence as dialogue 3. Language as dialogue 4. Novelness as dialogue: The novel of education and the education of the novel 5. The dialogue of history and poetics 6. Authoring as dialogue: The architectonics of answerability 7. The Heteroglossia Called Bakhtin Notes Select Bibliography Index