Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
This volume celebrate 100s years of Bakhtin's Heritage: in September 13 of 1919 in Nevel's literary journal Den Iskusstva (The Day of the Art) was published first work of Bakhtin - Art and Answerability that became his literary manifesto. This book is a unique scholarly attempt to examine the heritage of Mikhail Bakhtin in a variety of disciplines. To accomplish this task, sixteen scholars from 8 countries (USA, Canada, Spain, Great Britain, France, Russia, Chile and Japan) have come together, and each of them has brought his/her unique perspective to the subject. For the first time, Mikhail Bakhtin will be discussed from the point of view of a wide range of approaches and methodologies. A primary objective was therefore to articulate the enduring relevance and heritage of the great and varied works of Bakhtin during more than half a century, from the early-1920s to the mid-1970s. His work in aesthetics, moral philosophy, linguistics, psychology, carnival, cognition, contextualism, and the history and theory of the novel are present here, as understood by a wide variety of distinguished scholars.
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Art and Answerability, the work that would become Mikhail Bakhtin's literary manifesto, was first published in Den Iskusstva (The Day of the Art) on September 13, 1919. Mikhail Bakhtin's Heritage in Literature, Arts, and Psychology: Art and Answerability celebrates one hundred years of Bakhtin's heritage. This unique book examines the heritage of Mikhail Bakhtin in a variety of disciplines. To articulate the enduring relevance and heritage of the varied works of Bakhtin, sixteen scholars from eight countries have come together, and each has brought his/her unique perspective to the subject. Bakhtin's work in aesthetics, moral philosophy, linguistics, psychology, carnival, cognition, contextualism, and the history and theory of the novel are present here, as understood by a wide variety of distinguished scholars.
Synopsis
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.