Mikhail Bakhtin’s Heritage in Literature, Arts, and Psychology : Art and Answerability

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. Cover Mikhail Bakhtin’sHeritage in Literature,Arts, and Psychology Mikhail Bakhtin’sHeritage in Literature,Arts, and Psychology: Art and Answerability Contents Introduction Bakhtin’s Heritage in Literature Chapter 1 Bakhtin’s Theory of the Novel Critical Approaches to Bakhtin’s Theory of the Novel The Novel as Genre The Prehistory of the Novel in Antiquity and the Middle Ages The Emergence of the Novel in the Renaissance Bakhtin’s Two Stylistic Lines The Novel The Polyphonic Novel Conclusion Notes Works Cited Chapter 2 The Art and Answerability of Bakhtin’s Poetics “Discourse in Poetry and Discourse in the Novel” “On Mayakovsky” Bakhtin’s Dialogues with Duvakin Notes Works Cited Chapter 3 Russian Translations of Lewis Carroll’s Alice Books Re-accentuation Devices How to Re-accentuate Parody Poetry: From Pushkin to “A House That Zhuk Built” Re-accentuation as an Evolving Cultural Dialogue Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Chapter 4 Bakhtin Reading Cervantes Cervantes and Bakhtin Don Quixote and Bakhtin’s Theory of the Novel Notes Works Cited Chapter 5 Bakhtinian Re-Accentuation and the Commemoration of the Third Centenary of Don Quixote at the University of Havana (1905) Notes Works Cited Chapter 6 Bakhtin and the Spanish Picaresque Lunes de Aguas or Carnival Prostituted Justina’s Burlesque Show Medicates from the Margins Notes Works Cited Chapter 7 Contextualizing Bakhtin’s Intuitive Discoveries Bakhtin’s Theory of Grotesque Realism Catholic Grotesque? The Grotesque and the Protestant Reformation Notes Works Cited Chapter 8 Rejecting a Quixotic End Don Quixote, Bakhtin, and Oe Mournful Countenance as a Response to Bakhtin’s Reading of Don Quixote Re-accentuating the Ending of Don Quixote Conclusion: Another Possible Don Quixote on the Periphery Notes Works Cited Chapter 9 Power, Privilege, Testimony Authorship Heteroglossia Notes Works Cited Bakhtin’s Heritage in Arts and Philosophy Chapter 10 Acting Philosophy Bakhtin Jollien Conclusion: Jollien–Bakhtin Notes Works Cited Chapter 11 Quixotic Cinema in the Light of Bakhtin’s Theory Monological Derivations from Dialogical Processes Chronotopic Variations Adapting Metafictional Aspects Conclusion Notes Works Cited Chapter 12 Toward a Philosophy of the Moving Body Ways of Perceiving Space—Geometrical or Ecological? Knowing Myself through Movement Egocentric and Allocentric Space (Experiencing Oneself as Subject and Object in Space) Body as Image or Agent? Value and Self-Accounting Time: Moment or Process? Bodily Senses as Information On Skin Embodied Empathy The Vital Body Notes Works Cited Chapter 13 Bakhtin against Dualism Deep Connections: Embodied Social Beings Dualistic Theory: Dehumanizing Humanity Cartesian and Theoretical Dehumanization: Descartes’s Dualistic Mind Structuralist Dualism: Coded Existence Ideology Theory and Bakhtin Restoring Humanity Notes Works Cited BAKHTIN’S HERITAGE IN Psychology Chapter 14 “Live Entering” into the Act Father and Child Objective and Subjective Cultures Simmel: A Sociology for Philosophy Bakhtin: Aesthetic Activity Rhythm The Sense of the Possible Conclusion: Body and Soul Notes Works Cited Chapter 15 “In Search of Lost Cheekiness” Foucault’s “Scandalous Banality” Bakhtin and the “Right to Be ‘Other’” Uncivil Enlightenment: Bakhtin/Foucault Conclusion Notes Works Cited Chapter 16 The Imagination of a Pluralistic and Dialogic Everyday Experience Psychology and Self-Contained Individualism Bakhtin: Aesthetics and Language James: Radical empiricism Concluding Remarks Notes Work Cited Appendix Index About the Contributors 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.