... since no one can pretend to own anything of permanence or to anchor his roots in any particular plot or speak in anything but borrowed languages -Nathaniel Tarn’ READING POUND WITH BAKHTIN...

... Wordsworth of Natural Supernaturalism. Bewell’s road to Wordsworth is well lit and accessible, and it leads us far into the haunt and main region of Wordsworth’s song. DON BIALOSTOSKY University of Toledo Joyce, Bakhtin, and Popular Literature...

...Stacy Burton © 2000 University of Washington 2000 04-Burton 10/3/00 9:45 AM Page 519 Paradoxical Relations: Bakhtin and Modernism Stacy Burton The speaking subjects of high, proclamatory genres—of priests, prophets...

... and nonliterary. Moreover, they seem to be as prevalent today as they were four hundred years ago. The passages that I read from Freud’s Moses and Monotheism, Bakhtin’s Rabelaas and His Wwld, and Rabelais’s work illustrate my point. These seemingly disparate texts share the same anxiety of fatherhood...

... than summative, more a rephrasing of critics who have come before him than a rethinking of eighteenth-century criticism from the vantage point of either the theorists he intermittently invokes (Bakhtin, Culler, and Derrida, among others) or the previous scholars he cites (Hume and Pechter...

...Donald M. Frame By Mikhail Bakhtin. Translated from the Russian by Helene Iswolsky. Cambridge, Mass., and London: M.I.T. Press, 1968. x + 484 pp. $15.00. Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 JOHN E. KELLER 605 pression, pairs...

... credit, Laura Kendrick resists trying to say everything about Chaucer’s literary play; she pursues instead a single coherent thesis about The Canterbuiy Tales, relying principally on a combination of Freud and Bakhtin (but the Bakhtin of Rabeluis and His World only). From Bakhtin she takes...

..., translations, and studies of this work, see David L. Rolston, ed., How to Reud the Chinese Novel (Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, iggo), 439-46. This essay is based on a paper originally presented at the Sixth Annual International Mikhail Bakhtin Conference, Cocoyoc, Mexico, 5-9...

... of defining “style,” especially those posed by essentialist, linguistic, or semiotic approaches. Seeking an alternative ap- proach, Markley turns to Bakhtin’s dialogical theory of discourse as a useful point of departure. He is drawn to Bakhtin’s theory for “its rejection of systematizing, its...

... poetics than in situating his practice historically, however, appear in the title of his second chapter, “Discourse in Life as Discourse in Art.” The chapter is headed by an epigraph from M. M. Bakhtin, and Bialostosky follows Bakhtin in asserting that the “represented speeches” of Wordsworth’s...

... literary forms, it leads to the destruction of literature as such” If we place Lukács’s and Auerbach’s great works alongside each other — and we should add to the company Mikhail Bakhtin’s Rabe- lais and His World (written published which elaborates his theory of “grotesque realism...

... periods of permissiveness alternated with furious recriminations.10 It is interesting to bring up here, as a parenthesis, the case of Bakhtin, who, it is increasingly clear, was ideologically much closer to a conservative attitude. But precisely because he “felt...

... ap- proach, Markley turns to Bakhtin’s dialogical theory of discourse as a useful point of departure. He is drawn to Bakhtin’s theory for “its rejection of systematizing, its relentlessly historicist interrogation of style, and its rejec- ...

... narratology (as lucid as, for instance, Terry Eagleton’s introductory explanations of theory), Kroeber locates his inspiration in Ricoeur and Bakhtin. He adapts Ricoeur’s linguistic theory of the dialectic between particularizing subject and universalizing predicate to storytelling at large...

... and suggesting thereby that one aspect of the unchanging in literary history is the theory of influence itself.3 From there I move to some remarks on Russian formalist forays into literary history, on Mikhail Bakhtin, on Hans Robert Jauss, and on Hans-Georg Gadamer. The lat- ter two emphasize the role...

... of time and a sense of belonging to a place come to embody a large truth about peasant life and rural society in modern China. That truth is the critical import that the novel strives to carry. Although Mikhail Bakhtin intends the concept of chronotope to demonstrate “the process...

... to later ones.”13 Appelfeld presents the horror and incomprehension that characterize both then and now. He does not, however, collapse the one into the other or imagine that the present enables us to under- 12 Mikhail Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays, trans. Caryl Emerson...

..., farce undercuts tragedy, fragments undercut emblems. Cumming uses Mikhail Bakhtin’s distinction between the monologic epic and the dialogic novel to develop his discussion of these opposing modes of producing meaning. Bakhtin contrasts epic, which represents the unified voice...

.... DON BIALOSTOSKY University of Toledo Joyce, Bakhtin, and Popular Literature: Chronicles of Disorder. By R. B. KERSH- NER. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1989. xi + 338 pp. $34.95. R. B. Kershner’s project is to demonstrate that Joyce’s “stories, novels...

..., in the work of Georg Lukács, M. M. Bakhtin, Franco Moretti, and others, we have seen the novel as the form in which a relationship with modernity was negotiated, as the modern epic, as the modern form for modernity. From Cervantes in Spain at the beginning of the seventeenth century to Aphra Behn in England...