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Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; TRANSLATION AND TRANSLITERATION; Introduction THE ACTING SUBJECT OF BAKHTIN; The Question of Subject(ivity); The Acting Subject; Bakhtin and His Others; Notes; References; Chapter 1 BAKHTIN AND LUK�ACS: SUBJECTIVITY, SIGNIFYING FORM AND TEMPORALITY IN THE NOVEL; Introduction: Bakhtin and Luk�acs; Subject and Signifying Form: The Early Bakhtin and the Early Luk�acs; From the Quest for Totality to a Polyphony of Voices: Hegel, Luk�acs, Bakhtin; Subjectivity and Temporality in the Novel; Notes; References.

Chapter 2 BAKHTIN, WATT AND THE EARLY EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY NOVELNovelistic Turning Points and the Eighteenth-Century Novel According to Bakhtin; The Early Eighteenth-Century Novel: Watt and Anglo-American Criticism; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 3 CONCEPTS OF NOVELISTIC POLYPHONY: PERSON-RELATED AND COMPOSITIONAL-THEMATIC; Introduction: Polyphonies of the Novel; Bakhtin: Polyphony as Polysubjectivity; The Romantic Idea of the Musical Composition of a Literary Work of Art: Friedrich Schlegel; The Polyphonic Composition of Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus.

Polyphony as the Principle of Composition of a 'Novel in the Form of Variations': Milan KunderaNotes; References; Chapter 4 FAMILIAR OTHERNESS: PECULIARITIES OF DIALOGUE IN EZRA POUND'S POETICS OF INCLUSION; Hieratic Head; Encountering Hades; Walking with Kung; Guide to Otherness; The Pattern Persists; Conclusion; Note; References; Chapter 5 AUTHOR AND OTHER IN DIALOGUE: BAKHTINIAN POLYPHONY IN THE POETRY OF PETER READING; The Problem of Bakhtinian Terminology and Poetry; Polyphony and the Poetic Text; Peter Reading's Polyphonic Poetry; Polyphony as Macroscopic Structure; Notes; References.

Chapter 6 TRADITION AND GENRE: THOMAS KYD'S The Spanish TragedyThe Tradition of Neo-Latin Drama in Kyd's Time; Source Study and 'Ideological Colloquy'; Kyd, Speech Genres and Literary History; The Spanish Tragedy and Conversation; Notes; References; Chapter 7 BAKHTIN'S CONCEPT OF THE CHRONOTOPE: THE VIEWPOINT OF AN ACTING SUBJECT; Bakhtin's Concept of Chronotope: An Epistemological Category?; The Bildungsroman: Seeing the Acting Subject in History; Chronotopes: Forms of the Time of Human Action as Conditioned by Concrete Circumstances; Notes; References.

Chapter 8 THE PROVINCIAL CHRONOTOPE AND MODERNITY IN CHEKHOV'S SHORT FICTIONThe Provincial Chronotope and the Idyll; The Provincial Poshlost; Provincial Longing and Narrative (Un)predictability; Notes; References; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS.

'Bakhtin and his Others' offers fresh theoretical insights into Bakhtin's ideas on (inter)subjectivity and temporality, research into his theoretical backgrounds, and case studies where these insights are employed in literary analysis.

Includes bibliographical references.

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