Table of Contents

Preface Part I An overview of the writings of Bakhtin and his circle Introduction 1 Voloshinov and Bakhtin on language 2 Bakhtin on the novel 3 Bakhtin’s carnival 4 Bakhtin and contemporary criticism, Notes to Part I Part II Extracts from the writings of Bakhtin and his circle 5 V.N. Voloshinov: ‘Language, speech, and utterance’ and ‘Verbal interaction’ 6 M.M. Bakhtin and P.N. Medvedev: from ‘Material and device as components of the poetic construction’ 7 M.M. Bakhtin: ‘The hero’s monologic discourse and narrational discourse in Dostoevsky’s short novels’ 8 M.M. Bakhtin: ‘Heteroglossia in the novel’ 9 M.M. Bakhtin: from ‘The grotesque image of the body and its sources’, Notes to Part II