E33D / E60B MODULE ONE: DIALOGISM

Week 2: Bakhtinian Philosophy of Language / Philosophy of Mind / Epistemology

Sem. 1: Philosophy of Language

• V. N. Volosinov Marxism and the Philosophy of Language: Part II: Toward a Marxist Philosophy of Language" (see excerpts entitled "Critique of Saussurian Linguistics" pp. 25-37 in Pam Morris, ed. The Bakhtin Reader)
• Mikhail Bakhtin Speech Genres and Other Late Essays: "The Problem of Speech Genres" (see excerpts entitled "Speech Genres" pp. 80-87 in Pam Morris, ed. The Bakhtin Reader)

• V. N. Volosinov Marxism and the Philosophy of Language: Part I: "The Philosophy of Language and its Significance for Marxism" (see excerpts entitled "Language as Dialogic Interaction" pp. 48-61 in Pam Morris, ed. The Bakhtin Reader)

Recommended Readings:

• Katerina Clark and Michael Holquist Mikhail Bakhtin
• David Danow The Thought of Mikhail Bakhtin: from Word to Culture
• Simon Dentith Bakhtinian Thought: an Introductory Reader: "Volosinov and Bakhtin on Language"

• Caryl Emerson Critical Essays on Mikhail Bakhtin

• Caryl Emerson The First Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin

• Michael Gardiner  Mikhail Bakhtin

• Michael Holquist Dialogism: Bakhtin and his World
• Gary Saul Morson Bakhtin: Essays and Dialogues on His Work
• Gary Saul Morson Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics
• Gary Saul Morson and Caryl Emerson Rethinking Bakhtin: Extensions and Challenges
• Tzevetan Todorov Mikhail Bakhtin: the Dialogical Principle
• Sue Vice Introducing Bakhtin

• P. N. Medvedev The Formal Method in Literary Scholarship: Chapters I and II (see excerpt entitled "Literature as Ideological Form" pp. 123-134 in Pam Morris, ed. The Bakhtin Reader)
• V. N. Volosinov Freudianism: a Critical Sketch: see excerpt entitled "Constructing a Sociological Poetics" pp. 160-174 in Pam Morris, ed. The Bakhtin Reader

Sem. 2: The Polyphonic / Heterglot Novel

• Mikhail Bakhtin
  • Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics: see extracts entitled:
    • "Dostoevsky's Polyphonic Novel: a Plurality of Consciousnesses" (pp. 88-96 in Pam Morris, ed. The Bakhtin Reader)
    • "The Dialogic Idea as Novelistic Image" (pp. 97-102 in Pam Morris, ed. The Bakhtin Reader)
    • "Double-Voiced Discourse in Dostoevsky" (pp. 102-112 in Pam Morris, ed. The Bakhtin Reader)
  • "Discourse in the Novel" (see excerpt entitled "The Heteroglot Novel" pp. 112-120 in Pam Morris, ed. The Bakhtin Reader; see also excerpts in Adams and Searle)

Recommended Readings:  

• See recommended readings above
• Simon Dentith Bakhtinian Thought: an Introductory Reader: "Bakhtin on the Novel"

Praxis:

• Don Bialostosky Making Tales: The Poetics of Wordsworth's narrative Experiments
• Michael D. Bristol "Carnival and the Institutions of Theater in Elizabethan England."  ELH 50 (1983): 637-654.
• Roger Fowler "Polyphony and Problematic in Hard Times (in Steven Connor, ed. Charles Dickens)
• Wendell V. Harris "Bakhtinian Double Voicing in Dickens and Eliot" ELH 57 (1990): 445-458.
• David Lodge After Bakhtin: "Lawrence, Dostoevsky, Bakhtin"

• Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The Signifying Monkey: "The Signifying Monkey and the Language of Signifyin(g): section I" (also in folder)

• Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The Signifying Monkey: "Figures Of Signification" (also in folder)

Recommended Readings:  

• Bucknell, Brad.  "Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and the Theory of Signifyin(g)."  Ariel 21 (1990): 65-83.
• Hale, Dorothy.  "Bakhtin in African American Literary Theory."  ELH 61 (1994): 445-471.

• Peterson, Dale.  "Response and Call: the African American Dialogue with Bakhtin and What It Signifies."  Bakhtin in Contexts: Across the Disciplines.  Ed. Amy Mandelker.  Evanston: Northwestern UP, 1995.  89-98.

• Spurlin, William.  "Theorizing Signifyin(g) and the Role of the Reader: Possible Directions for African-American Literary Criticism" College English 52 (1990): 732-42.