... of Mikhail Bakhtin's exploration of the “destruction of the idyll” in the novel, I consider how Jones's work imagines a relationship between a local place (a “known world”) and a totality that extends beyond it. As Glissant has argued, “Not knowing this totality is not a weakness. Not wanting to know...

...) and Mikhail Bakhtin's Problems of Dostoevsky's Creative Art (1929). While Lukács's later conversion to Marxism led him away from the ideal of erasing the boundary between art and life, Bakhtin pursued it throughout his writings, smuggling the logic of Symbolist life-creation into the language of modern...

...Jonathan Arac Georg Lukács's Theory of the Novel locates the novel at a particular juncture within the history of Western spirit but not in relation to any specific social, political, or economic history. Mikhail Bakhtin, influenced by Lukács and also by Friedrich Schlegel's theorization...

.... Reading Bolaño's conception of exile as a conciliation between Lukács's and Bakhtin's theories of literature as a form of exile, this essay traces how his novels turn the modern drive to estrangement into a post-auratic nostalgia open to commodification. © 2009 by Novel, Inc. 2009 Works Cited...

... throughout its existence (and to the signs, the indexes, within the work and outside it, that signal those relations). Proust's novel, along with the work of M. M. Bakhtin, Pierre Bourdieu, Michael Silverstein, and others, suggests ways of thinking about how meaning unfolds, develops, happens in time around...

...Caroline Reitz Theories of the novel have made us comfortable with the idea of the novel's trademark heteroglossia and dynamism. We accept that the novel, according to Bakhtin, “best of all reflects the tendencies of a new world still in the making” and that, according to Franco Moretti...

... of Literature ), his work on pedagogy and aesthetics, and the literature of novel theory in the twentieth century, including the work of Georg Lukács and Mikhail Bakhtin. Rancière's insistence upon the “democratic” quality of the novel form presents a quandary for many readers, due to his reluctance to speak...

... . Berkeley : U of California P , 1957 . Refusing the Death of the Novel SR I N I VA S A R AVA M U DA N The founding modern theorists of the novel—Mikhail Bakhtin, Georg Lukács, and Ian Watt—could not entirely shake free of a vitalist thematics. Twentieth-century accounts...

... in Western Literature. 1953 . Trans. Trask Willard R. . Intro. Said Edward W. . Fiftieth anniversary ed . Princeton : Princeton UP , 2003 . Bakhtin M. M. The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays . Ed. Holquist Michael . Trans. Emerson Caryl Holquist Michael . Austin...

...Timothy Bewes Works Cited Bakhtin M. M. Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics . Trans. Emerson Caryl . Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P , 1984 . Lukács Georg . The Theory of the Novel: A Historico-Philosophical Essay on the Forms of Great Epic Literature . Trans...

..., between literature and nonliterature and so forth are not laid up in heaven. —Bakhtin It is a very beautiful thing when a nation has books which have been crammed full of their story. —Sekese What distinguishes the novel, writes Mikhail Bakhtin, is that “the forces that define...

... . How Novels Think: The Limits of British Individualism from 1719–1900 . New York: Columbia UP, 2005 . Bakhtin , Mikhail . The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays . Ed. Holquist Michael. Trans. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. Austin: U of Texas P, 1981 . Chotiner , Isaac . “The TNR...

... of it to read the exchange between, and imbrication of, jazz and the novel. © 2009 by Novel, Inc. 2009 Works Cited Bakhtin , Mikhail M . “Author and Hero in Aesthetic Activity.” Trans. Vadim Liapunov. Art and Answerability: Early Philosophical Essays by M. M. Bakhtin . Ed. Holquist Michael...

... . Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel . New York: Oxford UP, 1987 . Bakhtin , M.M. The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays . Ed. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. Trans. Michael Holquist. Austin: U of Texas P, 1981 . Bakhtin , M.M. Speech Genres and Other...

... , Fernando . “Can Postcoloniality be Decolonized? Imperial Banality and Postcolonial Power.” Public Culture 5 ( 1992 ): 89 –108. Emerson , Caryl , and G. S. Morson Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics . Stanford: Stanford UP, 1990 . Engle , Lars . “The Political Uncanny: The Novels...

...-geographical moments (that is, using a somewhat different figuration of Bakhtin 's chronotope ) to broader considerations of the lands in and of the novel. The coincidence seemed to call for this special issue. After soliciting the remarkably insightful SNS conference keynote addresses by Ngũgĩ wa...

... and the project of literary realism, broadly conceived. In “The Bildungsroman and Its Significance in the History of Realism,” Mikhail Bakhtin dramatizes the emergence of modern realism in conjunction with concomitant changes in the theory and organization of knowledge. Bakhtin emphasizes the importance...

... Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism . Rev. ed. New York: Verso, 1993 . ———. Spectre of Comparisons: Nationalism, Southeast Asia, and the World . New York: Verso, 1998 . Bakhtin , Mikhail M. The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays . Ed. Holquist Michael. Trans...

... Bakhtin's influential studies of narrative constituted another impediment to taking seriously the role of character in the ancient Greek novels. Bakhtin affirmed that the Greek romances, as opposed to the modern novel, lacked the dimension of time and that events took place only in space. The protagonists...

... this differently, the logic of the concept of indexicality cuts short an analysis of the negotiation through talk of rhetorical positions, and the interpretive ploys that all such negotiation involves. The second metadiscourse elaborated in What Proust Heard is drawn from Bakhtin's account of speech genres...