Explores and illuminates the impact of the Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin on our understanding of literary modernism.
This volume explores the subject of modernism as seen through the lens of Bakhtinian criticism and in doing so offers a rounded and up-to-date example of the application of Bakhtinian theory to a field of research. The contributors consider the global spread of modernism and the variety of its manifestations as well as modernism’s relationship to popular culture and its collective elaboration, which are dominant concerns in Bakhtin’s thinking.
As with other volumes in the Understanding Philosophy, Understanding Modernism series, the volume is divided into three parts. Part 1 provides readings of Bakhtin’s work in the context of literary modernism. Part 2 features case studies of modernist art and artists and their relation to Bakhtinian theory.
The final part provides a glossary of key terms in Bakhtin’s work.
List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Bakhtin at Interpretative Crossroads Philippe Birgy (University of Toulouse 2 Jean Jaures, France) Part I: Conceptualizing Bakhtin 1. From Heteroglossia to Contemporaneity: Bakhtin's Modernist History of the Novel Ken Hirschkop (University of Waterloo, Canada) 2. Mikhail Bakhtin and the History of Literature: The Past in the Present and the Present in the Past Anker Gemzoe (Aalborg University, Denmark) 3. On Death and Turn-Taking in Conversation: The Notion of Succession (smena) in Bakhtin's Late Philosophy Sergeiy Sandler (Independent Scholar) 4. Bakhtin’s Chronotope: Crisis-time and Great Time in Benjamin and Hölderlin Jeremy 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 Poetics Peter Hitchcock (Baruch College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, USA) Part II: Bakhtin and Modernism 9. “New Philosophical Wonder”: Bakhtin, Shklovsky, and the Re-enchantment of the World Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan (Independent Scholar) 10. Gide, Bakhtin, and the Threshold of Modernism Tara Collington (University of Waterloo, Canada) 11. Sensation and Abstraction: The Station as a Modernist Chronotope Anker 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 Carnival Yann Tholoniat (Université de Lorraine, France) 14. Mikhaïl Bakhtin, Modern Dance, and the Body’s Unmediated Presence in the World Robert Barsky (Vanderbilt University, USA) and Marsha Barsky (Kennesaw State University, USA) Part III: Glossary 15. Introduction to the Glossary Sergeiy 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 Sandler 18. Becoming Jonathan Hall 19. Carnival Yann Tholoniat 20. Chronotope Sergeiy Sandler 21. Completion Sergeiy Sandler 22. Contemporaneity Ken Hirschkop 23 Deed Sergeiy Sandler 24 Dialogue/Dialogical/Dialogization Ken Hirschkop 25 Genre Sergeiy Sandler 26 Heteroglossia Ken Hirschkop 27 I and Other Philippe Birgy 28 Menippean Satire Yann Tholoniat 29 Outsidedness Sergeiy Sandler 30 Present/Past/Future Philippe Birgy 31 Responsibility/Answerability Philippe Birgy 32 Style Ken Hirschkop 33 Utterance Sergeiy Sandler 34 Word/Discourse Sergeiy Sandler Index
"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)."
Reviews for Understanding Bakhtin, Understanding Modernism
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. * Galin Tihanov, George Steiner Professor of Comparative Literature, Queen Mary University of London, UK * A very timely and helpful volume by an impressive range of scholars, which clarifies Bakhtin's relationship to modernity and to modernist literature as well as making connections with some of the most prominent European thinkers on the issue. The inclusion of a glossary of some of Bakhtin's key terminology provides an excellent resource for those seeking to make sense of this influential thinker without falling prey to the many misconceptions that have commonly dogged critical work in the field. * Craig Brandist, Professor of Cultural Theory and Intellectual History and Director of the Bakhtin Centre, University of Sheffield, UK *
