Table of Contents

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 defence of Mikhail Bakhtin's dissertation as real event, as high drama, and as academic comedy - Nikolai Pan'kov
3. Not the novel: Bakhtin, poetry, truth, God - Graham Pechey
4. From phenomenology to dialogue: Max Scheler's phenomenological tradition and Mikhail Bakhtin's development from 'Towards a philosophy of the act' to his study of Dostoevsky - Brian Poole
5. Bakhtin and the reader- David Shepherd
6. Dialogic subversion: Bakhtin, the novel and Gertrude Stein - Nancy Glazener
7. Bakhtin and the history of language - Tony Crowley
8. Bodymattters: self and other in Bakhtin, Sartre and Barthes - Ann Jefferson
9. Bakhtin, Schopenhauer, Kundera - Terry Eagleton
10. Bibliographical essay - Carol Adlam

About the Author

Ken Hirschkop is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Manchester David Shepherd is Professor of Russian and Director of the Bakhtin Centre at the University of Sheffield