ABSTRACT
The Bakhtinian concepts introduced are eventness and answerability, embodiment and outsideness, finalization and unfinalizability are inconceivable, in the simplest sense, when decoupled from the more familiar terms we have used to describe the basic relations between subjects, namely, 'self' and 'other'. Towards a Philosophy of the Act and 'Author and Hero in Aesthetic Activity' conclude with an analysis of the same poem by Alexander Pushkin written in 1830. Bakhtin's point is not simply, however, to insist that it is not the author who speaks 'directly' in the poem, but rather that what distinguishes the author as such from the other value-contexts is his outsideness with regard to 'the inner architectonic field of artistic vision'. The architectonics of literary form as opposed to 'surface', 'compositional' formal markers becomes the core of Bakhtin's programme and will remain present in and definitive of each subsequent phase of its development.
