Introducing Bakhtin

264 Pages·1998·9.204 MB·English

by  Sue Vice

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INTRODUCING BAKHTIN
MANCHESTER
UNIVERSITY PRESS
FOR MY PARENTS
SUE VICE
INTRODUCING BAKHTIN
Westminster College Library
Sait Lake City, Utah
MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Copyright © Sue Vice 1997
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British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Vice, Sue, 1961-
Introducing Bakhtin/Sue Vice
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7190-4327-1 (cloth; ak. paper). - ISBN 0-7190-4328-x (pbk.;
alk. paper)
1. Bakhtin, M. M. (Mikhail Mikhailovitch), 1895—1975.
2. Criticism. I. Title.
PN81.V46 1997
8oi’.95'o92—dc2i
ISBN o 7190 4327 1 hardback
o 7190 4328 x paperback
First published in 1997
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Typeset by Action Typesetting Ltd, Gloucester
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vi
ABBREVIATIONS vii
INTRODUCTION I
1 Heteroglossia: 'I hear voices everywhere 18
2 Dialogism: and conflict between them' 45
3 Polyphony: voices with equal rights 112
4 Carnival and the grotesque body t 149
5 The chronotope: fleshing out time 200
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 229
INDEX 235
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I am grateful to the following for all kinds of help throughout this
study: Carol Adlam, Rachel Armstrong, John Banks, Rachel
Falconer, Alex George, John Haffenden, Ken Hirschkop, Agnes
McAuley, Ian MacKillop, Gemma Marren, Alastair Renfrew, Neil
Roberts, Anita Roy, Erica Sheen, Stephanie Sloan, other members
of Manchester University Press’s staff, and my family. Thanks also
to St Andrews University Library, which was invaluable during two
summers, and to the Guardian for permission to reproduce Pass
Note no. 839, 'The Gay Gene', 24 June 1996.
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