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

Slav N. Gratchev is associate professor of Spanish at Marshall University.Howard Mancing is professor emeritus of Spanish at Purdue University.

This book provides a categorical examination of Bakhtinian thought as it originates in the humanities and social sciences. International in scope and constructed according to multidisciplinary epistemologies, the volume “articulate[s] the enduring relevance and heritage of the great and varied works of Bakhtin,” to quote from the editors' introduction. The volume is divided into three parts, each dealing with one of the three broad areas specified in the title. The longest and most notable is the first part, "Bakhtin’s Heritage in Literature," in which both editors provide the foundational concepts of that heritage (i.e., Bakhtin’s idiosyncratic theorizing of the novel, with Cervantes functioning as a corresponding influence). Part 2 examines Bakhtin’s heritage in philosophy and in film and acting, and part 3 addresses the Bakhtin tradition within the psychology of mind and discourse. Though other works—such as Deborah Haynes’s Bakhtin Reframed (2013) and Michael Holquists’s Dialogism: Bakhtin and His World (CH, Apr'91, 28-4340)—are comparable in terms of the themes they take on, Gratchev and Mancing's is the first volume in which multiple scholars in various fields and from an array of cultures provide unfettered analysis of the lineage of Bakhtin’s theories.Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.

• Introduction - Slav N. Gratchev and Howard Mancing Part I: Bakhtin’s Heritage in LiteratureBakhtin’s Theory of the Novel - Howard MancingBakhtin’s Poetics - Margarita MarinovaThrough the Looking-Glass of Bakhtinian Dialogic Re-Accentuation: Russian Translations of Lewis Carroll - Victor FetBakhtin reading Cervantes: The Birth of the Novel - Slav N. GratchevBakhtinian Re-Accentuation and the Commemoration of the Third Centenary of DQ at the University of Havana (1905) - Ricardo CastellsBakhtin and the Spanish Picaresque: Between La Pícara Justina and Lunes de Aguas - Brian PhilipsContextualizing Bakhtin’s Intuitive Discoveries: The End of Grotesque Realism and the Reformation - Yelena Mazour-MatusevichRejecting a Quixotic End: Kenzaburo Oe’s Bakhtinian Reading of Don Quixote - Yumi TanakaPower, Privilege, Polyphony: Bakhtin and Non-Hegemonic Voices in 20th-Century Latin American Literature - Melissa GarrPart II: Bakhtin’s Heritage in Arts and PhilosophyActing Philosophy: Bakhtin, Jollien, and the Art of Answerability - Michael EskinWandering Knights in Space: The Quixotes of Science Fiction - Pablo CarvajalToward a Philosophy of the Moving Body - Dick McCawBakhtin against Dualism: Restoring Humanity to the Subjective Experience - Steven MillsPart III: Psychology“Live Entering” and Other Acts: On Becoming Intersubjective - Greg NielsenIn Search of Lost Cheekiness: Bakhtin and Foucault as Neo-Cynics - Michael GardinerThe Imagination of a Pluralistic and Dialogic Everyday Experience: Bakhtin with James - James Cresswell and Andrés Haye