VOLUME 3(4) • 2015
INTRODUCTION TO BAKHTIN AT THE BOUNDARIES?
ABSTRACT. The increased interest in the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, members of the Bakhtin Circle(s), and their informants among Western scholars have been particularly evident since the 1980s. Bakhtin’s ideas about dialogism – spanning significant historical and political epochs – have been a source o..
FROM “NEOPHILOLOGY” TO “SOCIOLOGICAL POETICS:” ALTERNATIVES TO FORMALISM IN LITERARY SCHOLARSHIP IN LENINGRAD IN THE 1920S
ABSTRACT. The emergence of “sociological poetics” in Leningrad is traced through a discussion of research projects developed at Institute for the Comparative History of the Literatures and Languages of the West and East (ILIaZV). The development and revision of certain ideas of A.N. Veselovskii in t..
THE AUTHOR-CREATOR AND THE POLYPHONIC HERO: THE DISCURSIVE PROCEDURES OF IMMISCIBILITY AND INTER-INDEPENDENCE
ABSTRACT. This article aims to describe discursive procedures in the study of literature. We focus our interest on the novelistic aesthetics of Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821–1881), who, according to Bakhtin (1999), is the author-creator of the polyphonic novel. The body of our anal..
POLYPHONY IN THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV: CHRISTIAN DIALOGICAL TENSION IN ALEXEI FYODOROVICH KARAMAZOV’S INTERACTIONS
ABSTRACT. This work’s aim is to analyze polyphony in The Brothers Karamazov, a novel written by Fyodor Dostoevsky, focusing on ideological confrontations that take place between characters, especially between the Karamazov’s family. More specifically, I try to understand how Alexei Fyodorovich Karam..
DIALOGISM AND VOICE IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL NATIVES: A BAKHTINIAN PERSPECTIVE ON THE BRAZILIAN DIGITAL GAME THE SLUM
ABSTRACT. This research is a theoretical study that seeks to explore the Bakhtinian concepts of dialogism and voice (cf. Bakhtin, 1986; 1990; 1999) from a literary game available on the digital platform: http://www.livroegame.com.br/ocortico/. This game covers the diverse creation of the thematic co..
WHAT’S BE HAPPEN? A DIALOGIC APPROACH TO THE ANALYSIS OF HERBS’ NEW ZEALAND REGGAE LYRICS
ABSTRACT. This paper extends aspects of Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of dialogic relations in the discourse of novels to popular song lyrics. Involving three levels of analysis, it examines the well known New Zealand band Herbs’ appropriation of reggae, and the construction of protest in relationships b..
HETEROGLOSSIA AND INDIGENOUS FEMINIST WRITING AND THEORY
ABSTRACT. Contemporary Indigenous feminist alternative knowledge producers have only recently begun to articulate and insinuate their worldview onto the international intellectual stage. More adroitly than their predecessors, they strategically implement aspects of the rhetorical genres, and skillfu..
CAN I STILL BE MYSELF AROUND THEM HERE? RE-ENVISIONING ETHNIC IDENTITY NEGOTIATION IN MULTIETHNIC SCHOOLS THROUGH A DIALOGIC APPROACH
ABSTRACT. This article presents a way of understanding ethnic identity negotiation in multiethnic school settings through dialogical and sociocultural perspectives. Starting with reference to Bakhtin and dialogical self theory (DST) as a lens to consider the nexus between ethnic self and other, the ..
LEARNING “GOOD” AND “BAD” FROM A NORTH KOREAN MONSTER MOVIE: BAKHTIN’S EARLY WRITING AND CHILDREN’S EARLY THINKING
ABSTRACT: Bakhtin teaches us that seeing empathetically and seeing aesthetically are distinct moments: the moment of empathizing, Bakhtin says, must be followed by a moment of return to one’s own point of view (1993, p. 11). In this paper, we study how this happens and how it fails to happen when a ..
TEACHERS TALK ABOUT THEIR LEARNING: A BAKHTINIAN ANALYSIS
ABSTRACT. For the first time in the history of Australian teachers’ working lives they will have to work with both a national curriculum and a set of national professional standards which bring with them expectations of 21st century teaching, the definition of which remains imprecise and somewhat el..
THE UNLIMITED NATURE OF BAKHTIN DIALOGISM
ABSTRACT. Not only does word enter into the dialogic tissue of human life, but so also do movements, actions, behaviors, images and ideas, and emotions, which possess a biodynamic, sensitive and affective tissue. In actual fact dialogic tissue is not only verbal, it also characterizes all forms of b..