Ken Hirschkop is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Manchester. David Shepherd is Professor of Russian and Director of the Bakhtin Centre at the University of Sheffield

• 1. Bakhtin in the sober light of day (introduction to the revised edition) - Ken Hirschkop2. 'Everything else depends on how this business turns out…': the defence of Mikhail Bakhtin's dissertation as real event, as high drama, and as academic comedy - Nikolai Pan'kov3. Not the novel: Bakhtin, poetry, truth, God - Graham Pechey4. From phenomenology to dialogue: Max Scheler's phenomenological tradition and Mikhail Bakhtin's development from 'Towards a philosophy of the act' to his study of Dostoevsky - Brian Poole5. Bakhtin and the reader- David Shepherd6. Dialogic subversion: Bakhtin, the novel and Gertrude Stein - Nancy Glazener7. Bakhtin and the history of language - Tony Crowley8. Bodymattters: self and other in Bakhtin, Sartre and Barthes - Ann Jefferson9. Bakhtin, Schopenhauer, Kundera - Terry Eagleton10. Bibliographical essay - Carol Adlam

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Ken Hirschkop is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Manchester. David Shepherd is Professor of Russian and Director of the Bakhtin Centre at the University of Sheffield

• 1. Bakhtin in the sober light of day (introduction to the revised edition) - Ken Hirschkop2. 'Everything else depends on how this business turns out…': the defence of Mikhail Bakhtin's dissertation as real event, as high drama, and as academic comedy - Nikolai Pan'kov3. Not the novel: Bakhtin, poetry, truth, God - Graham Pechey4. From phenomenology to dialogue: Max Scheler's phenomenological tradition and Mikhail Bakhtin's development from 'Towards a philosophy of the act' to his study of Dostoevsky - Brian Poole5. Bakhtin and the reader- David Shepherd6. Dialogic subversion: Bakhtin, the novel and Gertrude Stein - Nancy Glazener7. Bakhtin and the history of language - Tony Crowley8. Bodymattters: self and other in Bakhtin, Sartre and Barthes - Ann Jefferson9. Bakhtin, Schopenhauer, Kundera - Terry Eagleton10. Bibliographical essay - Carol Adlam

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Ken Hirschkop is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Manchester. David Shepherd is Professor of Russian and Director of the Bakhtin Centre at the University of Sheffield

• 1. Bakhtin in the sober light of day (introduction to the revised edition) - Ken Hirschkop2. 'Everything else depends on how this business turns out…': the defence of Mikhail Bakhtin's dissertation as real event, as high drama, and as academic comedy - Nikolai Pan'kov3. Not the novel: Bakhtin, poetry, truth, God - Graham Pechey4. From phenomenology to dialogue: Max Scheler's phenomenological tradition and Mikhail Bakhtin's development from 'Towards a philosophy of the act' to his study of Dostoevsky - Brian Poole5. Bakhtin and the reader- David Shepherd6. Dialogic subversion: Bakhtin, the novel and Gertrude Stein - Nancy Glazener7. Bakhtin and the history of language - Tony Crowley8. Bodymattters: self and other in Bakhtin, Sartre and Barthes - Ann Jefferson9. Bakhtin, Schopenhauer, Kundera - Terry Eagleton10. Bibliographical essay - Carol Adlam

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