ABSTRACT
The fourteen essays collected in this volume, notwithstanding their diversity of subject matter and approach, share a concern with the contexts to which we need to refer in order to understand not only the origins, but also the potential of Mikhail Bakhtin's thought: contexts both immediate and oblique, personal and impersonal, intellectual and theoretical. Five of the essays are by well-known Russian scholars whose work on Bakhtin has not previously been translated in English; the other nine papers are by established and emerging Bakhtin specialists in North America, the United Kingdom, and Europe.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |42 pages
Life, Philosophy, Philosophy of Life
part |37 pages
Authorship
part |57 pages
Form and Image
part |71 pages
A Time and a Place