Bakhtin and cultural theory Second edition

This wide-ranging treatment of Bakhtin's cultural and literary theory tests, compares, and explores his work in relation to colonialism, feminism, reception theory, and theories of the body. Many of the essays in the first edition have become standard reference points in cultural debate. This revised second edition takes advantage of the wealth of new Bakhtin material which became available after perestroika. New articles make use of previously unacknowledged sources of Bakhtin's theory of dialogue; they also vividly recount the dramatic events surrounding his thesis on Rabelais, and interrogate his famous distinction between poetry and the novel.

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.

Bakhtin in the Sober Light of Day--Ken Hirschkop * "Everything Else Depends on How this Business Turns Out..."--Nikolai Pan'kov * Not the Novel: Bakhtin, Poetry, Truth, God--Graham Pechey * From Phenomenology to Dialogue--Brian Poole * Bakhtin and the Reader--David Shepherd * Dialogic Subversion--Nancy Glazener * Bakhtin and the History of Language--Tony Crowley * Bodymatters: Self and Other in Bakhtin, Sartre and Barthes--Ann Jefferson * Bakhtin, Schopenhauer, Kundera--Terry Eagleton * Biographical Essay--Carol Adlam