David Shepherd is professor of Russian and director of the Bakhtin Centre at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of Beyond Metafiction: Self-Consciousness in Soviet Literature (1992); editor of Bakhtin: Carnival, and Other Subjects (1993); co-editor with Ken Hirschkop of Bakhtin and Cultural Theory (1989, 1998) and co-editor with Catriona Kelly of Constructing Russian Culture in the Age of Revolution (1998) and Russian Cultural Studies: An Introduction (1998). His current research is focused on the intellectual contexts of the Bakhtin Circle.

• Introduction to the Series. Preface. Acknowledgements. Abbreviations. Transliteration and Translation. About the Contributors. 1. People Not of Our Time 2. Two of a Small Fraternity? Points of Contact and Departure in the Works of Bakhtin and Kagan up to 1924 3. The Nevel School of Philosophy (Bakhtin, Kagan and Pumpianskii) Between 1918 and 1925: Materials from Pumpianskii's Archive 4. The Author According to Bakhtin...and Bakhtin the Author 5. Carnival in Theory and Practice: Vaginov and Bakhtin 6. Author and Hero in Russian Literature of the Soviet Period 7. Bakhtin's Aesthetics as a Logic of Form 8. The Architecture of Aesthetic Discourse 9. Bakhtin and Valery: Towards a Poetic of Dialogism 10. We Are the Real : Bakhtin and Representation of Speech 11. Bakhtin's Concept of Chronotope : The Kantian Connection 12. Modernity and Chronotopicity in Bakhtin Modernity and Chronotopicity in Bakhtin 13. Is Dialogism for Real? 14. Chatter, Babble, and Dialogue.