Art and Answerability, the work that would become Mikhail Bakhtin's literary manifesto, was first published in Den Iskusstva (The Day of the Art) on September 13, 1919. Mikhail Bakhtin's Heritage in Literature, Arts, and Psychology: Art and Answerability celebrates one hundred years of Bakhtin's heritage. This unique book examines the heritage of Mikhail Bakhtin in 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. Bakhtin's 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.
Introduction - Slav N. Gratchev and Howard Mancing Part I: Bakhtin's Heritage in Literature Bakhtin's Theory of the Novel - Howard Mancing Bakhtin's Poetics - Margarita Marinova Through the Looking-Glass of Bakhtinian Dialogic Re-Accentuation: Russian Translations of Lewis Carroll - Victor Fet Bakhtin reading Cervantes: The Birth of the Novel - Slav N. Gratchev Bakhtinian Re-Accentuation and the Commemoration of the Third Centenary of DQ at the University of Havana (1905) - Ricardo Castells Bakhtin and the Spanish Picaresque: Between La Picara Justina and Lunes de Aguas - Brian Philips Contextualizing Bakhtin's Intuitive Discoveries: The End of Grotesque Realism and the Reformation - Yelena Mazour-Matusevich Rejecting a Quixotic End: Kenzaburo Oe's Bakhtinian Reading of Don Quixote - Yumi Tanaka Power, Privilege, Polyphony: Bakhtin and Non-Hegemonic Voices in 20th-Century Latin American Literature - Melissa Garr Part II: Bakhtin's Heritage in Arts and Philosophy Acting Philosophy: Bakhtin, Jollien, and the Art of Answerability - Michael Eskin Wandering Knights in Space: The Quixotes of Science Fiction - Pablo Carvajal Toward a Philosophy of the Moving Body - Dick McCaw Bakhtin against Dualism: Restoring Humanity to the Subjective Experience - Steven Mills Part III: Psychology "Live Entering" and Other Acts: On Becoming Intersubjective - Greg Nielsen In Search of Lost Cheekiness: Bakhtin and Foucault as Neo-Cynics - Michael Gardiner The Imagination of a Pluralistic and Dialogic Everyday Experience: Bakhtin with James - James Cresswell and Andres Haye
