This book provides a categorical examination of Bakhtinian thought as it originates in the humanities and social sciences. International in scope and constructed according to multidisciplinary epistemologies, the volume “articulate[s] the enduring relevance and heritage of the great and varied works of Bakhtin,” to quote from the editors' introduction. The volume is divided into three parts, each dealing with one of the three broad areas specified in the title. The longest and most notable is the first part, "Bakhtin’s Heritage in Literature," in which both editors provide the foundational concepts of that heritage (i.e., Bakhtin’s idiosyncratic theorizing of the novel, with Cervantes functioning as a corresponding influence). Part 2 examines Bakhtin’s heritage in philosophy and in film and acting, and part 3 addresses the Bakhtin tradition within the psychology of mind and discourse. Though other works—such as Deborah Haynes’s Bakhtin Reframed (2013) and Michael Holquists’s Dialogism: Bakhtin and His World (CH, Apr'91, 28-4340)—are comparable in terms of the themes they take on, Gratchev and Mancing's is the first volume in which multiple scholars in various fields and from an array of cultures provide unfettered analysis of the lineage of Bakhtin’s theories.Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.
