| Acknowledgements | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| 1 | Critique of Saussurian Linguistics (Voloshinov/Bakhtin) | 25 |
| 2 | Critique of Freudianism (Voloshinov/Bakhtin) | 38 |
| 3 | Language as Dialogic Interaction (Voloshinov/Bakhtin) | 48 |
| 4 | Reported Speech as Index of Social Change (Voloshinov/Bakhtin) | 61 |
| 5 | Social Heteroglossia (Bakhtin) | 73 |
| 6 | Speech Genres (Bakhtin) | 80 |
| 7 | Dostoevsky's Polyphonic Novel: A Plurality of Consciousness (Bakhtin) | 88 |
| 8 | The Dialogic Idea as Novelistic Image (Bakhtin) | 97 |
| 9 | Double-Voiced Discourse in Dostoevsky (Bakhtin) | 102 |
| 10 | The Heteroglot Novel (Bakhtin) | 112 |
| (Note on the Two Stylistic Lines of the Novel) | 120 | |
| 11 | Literature as Ideological Form (Bakhtin/Medvedev) | 123 |
| 12 | Critique of Formalism (Bakhtin/Medvedev) | 135 |
| 13 | Constructing a Sociological Poetics (Voloshinov/Bakhtin) | 160 |
| 14 | Genres as Ideological Forms (Bakhtin/Medvedev) | 174 |
| 15 | Aesthetic Visualizing of Time/Space: The Chronotope (Bakhtin) | 180 |
| 16 | The Serio-Comical Tradition of the Menippea (Bakhtin) | 187 |
| 17 | Folk Humour and Carnival Laughter (Bakhtin) | 194 |
| 18 | Carnival Ambivalence: Laughter, Praise and Abuse (Bakhtin) | 206 |
| 19 | The Banquet, the Body and the Underworld (Bakhtin) | 226 |
| A Glossary of Key Terms | 245 | |
| Bibliography | 253 | |
| Index | 257 |
Overview
This anthology provides a comprehensive selection of the writing by Bakhtin and of that attributed to Voloshinov and Medvedev. It introduces readers to the aspects most relevant to literary and cultural studies and gives a focused sense of Bakhtin's central ideas and the underlying cohesiveness of his thinking.