An important collection of essays which treats Bakhtin as a provocative theorist whose work must be tested, explored and compared with the work of others. Contributors assess Bakhtin’s contribution to difficult issues of colonialism, feminism, reception theory and theories of the body, amongst others. New articles explore the origins, previously unacknowledged, of Bakhtin’s theory of language and provide a vivid account of the dramatic scandal surrounding Bakhtin’s thesis on Rabel...
Innehållsförteckning
1. Bakhtin in the sober light of day (introduction to the revised edition) – Ken Hirschkop
2. ’Everything else depends on how this business turns out…’: the d...
Om författaren
David Shepherd is Professor of Russian and Director of the Bakhtin Centre at the University of Sheffield