Mikhail Bakhtin Summary

Bakhtin Circle, The The Bakhtin Circle was a group of Soviet scholars, including the cultural theorist Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (1895–1975), the linguist Valentin Nikolaevich Voloshinov (18... Read more

Bakhtin, Mikhail Mikhailovich [addendum] By the time his boom and cult had passed, Mikhail Bakhtin had become a twentieth-century classic and the beneficiary of a huge research industry. Accordingly, ... Read more

Before he attained posthumous fame as a polymath, Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin's reputation in the U.S.S.R. lay under the shadow of his 1929 arrest for being a member of Voskresenie (Resurrection), de... Read more

Mikita Hoy Mikhail Bakhtin is acknowledged in increasingly wide circles as a sensitive observer of popular culture in its socio-historical context. His acute study of the folkloric rituals of carniva... Read more

Critical Essay by Anthony Wall The present essay explores the nature of characters and narrators in the writings of Mikhail Bakhtin and his circle. Our project is a hazardous one because Bakhtin�... Read more

Susan Stewart During the period of the New Economic Policy, as Lenin sought, rather abashedly, to approach communism via a new form of "state capitalism," and as the concrete mode of pe... Read more

Critical Essay by Caryl Emerson Baxtin studies have come of age. For evidence of this one should look not at the exploding number of references, nor at the extraordinary seepage of his name into unli... Read more

Critical Essay by Michael Holquist Mikhail Bakhtin made important contributions to several different areas of thought, each with its own history, its own language, and its own shared assumptions. As ... Read more

In the following essay, originally delivered as a lecture on 30 October 2001, Emerson reviews controversies in Bahktinian scholarship, provides insight into Bakhtin as a teacher and reader of texts, a... Read more

In the following essay, Haynes discusses how Bakhtin's aesthetic theory might contribute to the study of the visual arts by making the viewing of and study of art more answerable and interactiv... Read more

In the following essay, Morson discusses Bakhtin's fascination with indeterminism and his concept of “open time” in narrative. We live forward, but we understand backward. ... Read more

In the following essay, Adlam discusses the ways in which Bakhtin's concepts of carnival, double-voicing, heteroglossia, and polyphony have been employed in feminist literary criticism, arguing... Read more

In the following essay, Hitchcock uses the biographical details of Bakhtin's physical deterioration and the amputation of his legs in an exploration of the possibilities of the grotesque inhere... Read more

In the following essay, Kelly compares Bakhtin's approach toward utopian systems and systemic thinking to that of his compatriot and predecessor Alexander Herzen, considered the father of Russi... Read more