Mikhail Bakhtin: The Word in the World (Critics of the Twentieth Century) PDF
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MIKHAIL BAKHTIN Mikhail Bakhtin is one of the most influential theorists of philos- ophy as well as literary studies. His work on dialogue and discourse has changed the way in which we read texts – both literary and cultural – and his practice of philosophy in literary refraction and philological exploration has made him a pioneering figure in the twentieth-century convergence of the two disciplines. In this book Graham Pechey offers a commentary on Bakhtin’s texts in all their complex and allusive ‘textuality’, keeping a sense throughout of the historical setting in which they were written and of his own interpretation of and response to them. Examining Bakhtin’s relationship to Russian Formalism and Soviet Marxism, Pechey focuses on two major interests: the influence of Eastern Orthodox Christianity upon his thinking; and Bakhtin’s use of literary criticism and hermeneutics as ways of ‘doing philosophy by other means’. Graham Pechey was born in South Africa and educated at the Universities of Natal and Cambridge. He has published numerous articles on Mikhail Bakhtin, Romantic writing, literary and cultural theory, and South African literature. Having retired in 2000 from lecturing in English at the University of Hertfordshire, he now teaches English part-time at the University of Cambridge and is an Associate at the University’s Centre of African Studies. CRITICS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY General Editor: Christopher Norris, University of Wales, Cardiff A.J. GREIMAS AND THE NATURE OF MEANING Ronald Schleifer CHRISTOPHER CAUDWELL Robert Sullivan FIGURING LACAN CRITICISM AND THE CULTURALUNCONSCIOUS Juliet Flower MacCannell HAROLD BLOOM TOWARDS HISTORICALRHETORICS Peter de Bolla F.R. LEAVIS Michael Bell POSTMODERN BRECHT ARE-PRESENTATION Elizabeth Wright DELEUZE AND GUATTARI Ronald Bogue ECSTASIES OF ROLAND BARTHES Mary Wiseman JULIA KRISTEVA John Lechte GEOFFREY HARTMAN CRITICISM AS ANSWERABLE STYLE G. Douglas Atkins EZRA POUND AS LITERARY CRITIC K. K. Ruthven PAUL RICOEUR S. H. Clark JÜRGEN HABERMAS CRITIC IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE Robert C. Holub INTRODUCING LYOTARD ART AND POLITICS Bill Readings WILLIAM EMPSON PROPHET AGAINST SACRIFICE Paul H. Fry ANTONIO GRAMSCI BEYOND MARXISM AND POSTMODERNISM Renate Holub KENNETH BURKE RHETORIC AND IDEOLOGY Stephen Bygrave NORTHROP FRYE THE THEORETICALIMAGINATION Jonathan Hart ROMAN JAKOBSON LIFE, LANGUAGE AND ART Richard Bradford JACQUES DERRIDA OPENING LINES Marian Hobson RAYMOND WILLIAMS LITERATURE, MARXISM AND CULTURALMATERIALISM John Higgins MIKHAIL BAKHTIN THE WORD IN THE WORLD Graham Pechey MIKHAIL BAKHTIN The Word in the World Graham Pechey First published 2007 by Routledge 2Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USAand Canada by Routledge 270 Madison Ave, New York, NY10016 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2007. “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk.” ©2007 Graham Pechey Typeset in Palatino by Taylor & Francis Books Printed and bound in Great Britain by Antony Rowe Ltd, Chippenham, Wiltshire All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Acatalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Acatalog record for this book has been requested ISBN 0-203-96280-X Master e-book ISBN ISBN: 978-0-415-42420-2 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-415-42419-6 (pbk) ISBN: 978-0-203-96280-0 (ebk) THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF MY LATE WIFE, THE ARTIST NOLA CLENDINNING (1943–93) CONTENTS Editor’s foreword x Acknowledgements xiv Abbreviations xvii Introduction 1 1 Boundaries versus binaries 13 2 Aesthetics and the avant-garde 33 3 Syntax and its subversion 56 4 Chronotopicity and conceptuality 82 5 The novel and its others 105 6 Eternity and modernity 127 7 Philosophy and theology 152 8 ‘First philosophy’ and the ‘first’ Bakhtin 181 Appendix: on the naming of ‘free indirect discourse’ 208 Notes 209 Bibliography 223 Index 230 ix
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