Novelness of Bakhtin

Jorgen Bruhn and Lan Lundquist, Jan, Editors

• Part I Perspectives: preface, Michael Holquist; introduction - a Novelness of Bakhtin?, Jurgen Bruhn and Jan Lundquist (Copenhagen, Denmark) Michael Holquist (Yale, USA); why is God's name a pun? Bakhtin's theory of the novel in the light of "Theophilology", Charles Lock (Copenhagen, Denmark); double voicing, sharing words - Bakhtin's dialogism and the history of the theory of free indirect discourse, Arild Linneberg (Bergen, Norway); Lovens lange arm - the long arm of the law - the hidden discourse of the law in Bakhtin's theory of the novel, Brian Poole (Berlin, Germany); objective narrative theory - the influence of Spielhagens's "Aristotelian" theory of "Narrative Objectivity" on Bakhtin's study of Dostoevsky. Part II Possibilities: Marianne Ping Huang (Aarhus, Denmark); gestures of the unheard - on style, rhetoric, and articulation in novelistic prose after Bakhtin; two novels of the Danish author Peer Hultberg, Derek Littlewood (Birmingham): epic and novel in magic realism - from Bakhtin to "Midnights Children".