1 Thanks to Randy Harris for his extremely helpful comments on an earlier version of this paper a... more 1 Thanks to Randy Harris for his extremely helpful comments on an earlier version of this paper and to the two anonymous reviewers, whose feedback has greatly improved the final product. 2 Page references are to the existing English translation, although I've frequently made alterations.
Introduction: Bakhtin and the postcolonial and postsocialist perspective
Interview of five Bakht... more Introduction: Bakhtin and the postcolonial and postsocialist perspective
Interview of five Bakhtinian experts: A Discussion on the Bakhtin Circle
It's particularly appropriate that John Frow's Marxism and Literary His-tory should dra... more It's particularly appropriate that John Frow's Marxism and Literary His-tory should draw so explicitly on Russian formalist work, for in many ways it is the most impressive attempt yet to theorize a link between avant-garde aesthetic commitments and Marxist politics, a synthesiz-ing ...
We know what we want to say today: that the death of rhetoric was greatly exaggerated, that it is... more We know what we want to say today: that the death of rhetoric was greatly exaggerated, that it is not a dead dog, that it survived even if its shape and agenda had to change with the times. And all of that is true: for while rhetoric lost much of its empire over the millenniain particular the dominions of invention and arrangement -public address and eloquence remained an art worth learning and worth teaching, even to poets. That continuity is deceptive, however. For while rhetoric survived as a more or less continuous tradition over the millennia, its political precondition did not. The ship of rhetoric was launched from democratic Athens, and while its voyage took it to many strange exotic and lands -feudal and Absolutist Europe, the new commercial societies of the eighteenth century, the liberal capitalism of England and France -it did not return home until some time in the nineteenth century, when the radical and labour movements of Europe and the Americas put popular sovereignty back onto the agenda. I'm tempted to say that rhetoric lost its moorings, floated free of the context that initiated it, but in fact the metaphor should be reversed, for it was democracy that took an extended holiday, returning after many centuries, after which both the ship and the port had changed utterly.
PMLA invites members of the as-sociation to submit letters, typed and double-spaced, commenting o... more PMLA invites members of the as-sociation to submit letters, typed and double-spaced, commenting on articles in previous issues or on matters of general scholarly or critical interest. The editor reserves the right to reject or edit Forum contributions and offers the authors discussed an ...
The intensity of recent critical attention to the work of Mikhail Bakhtin is, by any standard, ex... more The intensity of recent critical attention to the work of Mikhail Bakhtin is, by any standard, extraordinary: conferences, a newsletter and a biography confirm that he is not considered just another theorist or critic. To a great degree Bakhtin's remarkable popularity can be ...
1 Thanks to Randy Harris for his extremely helpful comments on an earlier version of this paper a... more 1 Thanks to Randy Harris for his extremely helpful comments on an earlier version of this paper and to the two anonymous reviewers, whose feedback has greatly improved the final product. 2 Page references are to the existing English translation, although I've frequently made alterations.
Introduction: Bakhtin and the postcolonial and postsocialist perspective
Interview of five Bakht... more Introduction: Bakhtin and the postcolonial and postsocialist perspective
Interview of five Bakhtinian experts: A Discussion on the Bakhtin Circle
It's particularly appropriate that John Frow's Marxism and Literary His-tory should dra... more It's particularly appropriate that John Frow's Marxism and Literary His-tory should draw so explicitly on Russian formalist work, for in many ways it is the most impressive attempt yet to theorize a link between avant-garde aesthetic commitments and Marxist politics, a synthesiz-ing ...
We know what we want to say today: that the death of rhetoric was greatly exaggerated, that it is... more We know what we want to say today: that the death of rhetoric was greatly exaggerated, that it is not a dead dog, that it survived even if its shape and agenda had to change with the times. And all of that is true: for while rhetoric lost much of its empire over the millenniain particular the dominions of invention and arrangement -public address and eloquence remained an art worth learning and worth teaching, even to poets. That continuity is deceptive, however. For while rhetoric survived as a more or less continuous tradition over the millennia, its political precondition did not. The ship of rhetoric was launched from democratic Athens, and while its voyage took it to many strange exotic and lands -feudal and Absolutist Europe, the new commercial societies of the eighteenth century, the liberal capitalism of England and France -it did not return home until some time in the nineteenth century, when the radical and labour movements of Europe and the Americas put popular sovereignty back onto the agenda. I'm tempted to say that rhetoric lost its moorings, floated free of the context that initiated it, but in fact the metaphor should be reversed, for it was democracy that took an extended holiday, returning after many centuries, after which both the ship and the port had changed utterly.
PMLA invites members of the as-sociation to submit letters, typed and double-spaced, commenting o... more PMLA invites members of the as-sociation to submit letters, typed and double-spaced, commenting on articles in previous issues or on matters of general scholarly or critical interest. The editor reserves the right to reject or edit Forum contributions and offers the authors discussed an ...
The intensity of recent critical attention to the work of Mikhail Bakhtin is, by any standard, ex... more The intensity of recent critical attention to the work of Mikhail Bakhtin is, by any standard, extraordinary: conferences, a newsletter and a biography confirm that he is not considered just another theorist or critic. To a great degree Bakhtin's remarkable popularity can be ...
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Interview of five Bakhtinian experts: A Discussion on the Bakhtin Circle
Interview of five Bakhtinian experts: A Discussion on the Bakhtin Circle