ms INTRODUCING BAKHTIN MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS FOR MY PARENTS SUE VICE INTRODUCING BAKHTIN Westminster College Library Sait Lake City, Utah MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS MANCHESTER AND NEW YORK distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin’s Press Copyright © Sue Vice 1997 Published by Manchester University Press Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9NR, UK and Room 400, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, ny iooio, USA Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin’s Press, Inc., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY iooio, USA British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Vice, Sue, 1961- Introducing Bakhtin/Sue Vice p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7190-4327-1 (cloth; ak. paper). - ISBN 0-7190-4328-x (pbk.; alk. paper) 1. Bakhtin, M. M. (Mikhail Mikhailovitch), 1895—1975. 2. Criticism. I. Title. PN81.V46 1997 8oi’.95'o92—dc2i ISBN o 7190 4327 1 hardback o 7190 4328 x paperback First published in 1997 01 00 99 98 97 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 if Typeset by Action Typesetting Ltd, Gloucester Printed in Great Britain by Bell & Bain Ltd, Glasgow CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vi ABBREVIATIONS vii INTRODUCTION I 1 Heteroglossia: 'I hear voices everywhere 18 2 Dialogism: and conflict between them' 45 3 Polyphony: voices with equal rights 112 4 Carnival and the grotesque body t 149 5 The chronotope: fleshing out time 200 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 229 INDEX 235 v ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am grateful to the following for all kinds of help throughout this study: Carol Adlam, Rachel Armstrong, John Banks, Rachel Falconer, Alex George, John Haffenden, Ken Hirschkop, Agnes McAuley, Ian MacKillop, Gemma Marren, Alastair Renfrew, Neil Roberts, Anita Roy, Erica Sheen, Stephanie Sloan, other members of Manchester University Press’s staff, and my family. Thanks also to St Andrews University Library, which was invaluable during two summers, and to the Guardian for permission to reproduce Pass Note no. 839, 'The Gay Gene', 24 June 1996. x vi