Mikhail Bakhtins Heritage in Literature, Arts, and Psychology: Art and Answerability [Paperback]

Art and Answerability, the work that would become Mikhail Bakhtins literary manifesto, was first published in Den Iskusstva (The Day of the Art) on September 13, 1919. Mikhail Bakhtins Heritage in Literature, Arts, and Psychology: Art and Answerability celebrates one hundred years of Bakhtins heritage.

This unique book examines the heritage of Mikhail Bakhtinin a variety of disciplines.To articulate the enduring relevance and heritage of the varied works of Bakhtin, sixteen scholars from eight countries have come together, and each has brought his/her unique perspective to the subject. Bakhtins work in aesthetics, moral philosophy, linguistics, psychology, carnival, cognition, contextualism, and the history and theory of the novel are present here, as understood by a wide variety of distinguished scholars.

Slav N. Gratchev is associate professor of Spanish at Marshall University.
Howard Mancing is professor emeritus of Spanish at Purdue University.

This book provides a categorical examination of Bakhtinian thought as it originates in the humanities and social sciences. International in scope and constructed according to multidisciplinary epistemologies, the volume articulate[s] the enduring relevance and heritage of the great and varied works of Bakhtin, to quote from the editors' introduction. The volume is divided into three parts, each dealing with one of the three broad areas specified in the title. The longest and most notable is the first part, Bakhtins Heritage in Literature, in which both editors provide the foundational concepts of that heritage (i.e., Bakhtins idiosyncratic theorizing of the novel, with Cervantes functioning as a corresponding influence). Part 2 examines Bakhtins heritage in philosophy and in film and acting, and part 3 addresses the Bakhtin tradition within the psychology of mind and discourse. Though other workssuch as Deborah Hayness Bakhtin Reframed (2013) and Michael Holquistss Dialogism: BakhtilĔ