Understanding Bakhtin, Understanding Modernism

Philippe Birgy is a Professor at the University of Toulouse-Jean Jaures, France, where he teaches critical methodology and literary theory in the English Department and English and American philosophy in the Philosophy Department. He is the author of "Une terrible beauté" : les modernistes anglais à l’épreuve de la critique girardienne (2005) and the editor of Revoir 14 : images après tout (2017) and Samuel Beckett: Drama as Philosophical Endgame? (2011).

From the novel to poetry, dance, and philosophy, this wide-ranging volume seeks to recover and mobilize the resources of Bakhtinian thought in making sense of modernism and modernity. With essays by some of the most visible Bakhtin scholars today, this book is for all those who wish to explore his work, its contexts, and its continuous impact.

• List of AbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Bakhtin at Interpretative CrossroadsPhilippe Birgy (University of Toulouse 2 Jean Jaures, France) Part I: Conceptualizing Bakhtin1. From Heteroglossia to Contemporaneity: Bakhtin's Modernist History of the NovelKen Hirschkop (University of Waterloo, Canada)2. Mikhail Bakhtin and the History of Literature: The Past in the Present and the Present in the PastAnker Gemzoe (Aalborg University, Denmark)3. On Death and Turn-Taking in Conversation: The Notion of Succession (smena) in Bakhtin's Late PhilosophySergeiy Sandler (Independent Scholar) 4. Bakhtin’s Chronotope: Crisis-time and Great Time in Benjamin and HölderlinJeremy Tambling (University of Manchester, UK)5. Bakhtin’s Scenarios of Selfhood: Modernism between Intersubjectivity and Transindividuality Ilya Kliger (Independent Scholar) 6. Anticipation and Prevention: A Dialogical Approach to the Modern Unconscious Jonathan Hall (University of Sheffield, UK)7. Bakhtin, Habermas, and the “Revenge of the Real” Michael E. Gardiner (Independent Scholar)8. Decolonizing Aesthetics: Bakhtin, Modernism, and Anti-Colonial PoeticsPeter Hitchcock (Baruch College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, USA) Part II: Bakhtin and Modernism9. “New Philosophical Wonder”: Bakhtin, Shklovsky, and the Re-enchantment of the WorldDaphna Erdinast-Vulcan (Independent Scholar)10. Gide, Bakhtin, and the Threshold of ModernismTara Collington (University of Waterloo, Canada)11. Sensation and Abstraction: The Station as a Modernist ChronotopeAnker Gemzoe (Aalborg University, Denmark)12. Bakhtin and the Protomodernist Dickens from an Anthropological Perspective Michael Hollington (University of Toulouse-Le Mirail, France)13. “An Irish clown, a great joker at the universe”: Joyce and the Modern CarnivalYann Tholoniat (Université de Lorraine, France) 14. Mikhaïl Bakhtin, Modern Dance, and the Body’s Unmediated Presence in the WorldRobert Barsky (Vanderbilt University, USA) and Marsha Barsky (Kennesaw State University, USA) Part III: Glossary15. Introduction to the GlossarySergeiy Sandler 16. Architectonics (inc. Event, I-for-myself, I-for-the-other and Other-for-me)Ken Hirschkop 17. Author and Hero (inc. Hero and Authorship)Sergeiy Sandler18. BecomingJonathan Hall 19. CarnivalYann Tholoniat20. ChronotopeSergeiy Sandler 21. CompletionSergeiy Sandler 22. ContemporaneityKen Hirschkop23 Deed Sergeiy Sandler24 Dialogue/Dialogical/Dialogization Ken Hirschkop 25 Genre Sergeiy Sandler26 Heteroglossia Ken Hirschkop27 I and Other Philippe Birgy28 Menippean Satire Yann Tholoniat29 Outsidedness Sergeiy Sandler 30 Present/Past/Future Philippe Birgy31 Responsibility/Answerability Philippe Birgy32 Style Ken Hirschkop33 Utterance Sergeiy Sandler34 Word/Discourse Sergeiy SandlerIndex