Mikhail Bakhtin

Don Bialostosky

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Rhetoric appears to be a marginal topic for the Bakhtin School and for most Bakhtin scholars, but many rhetorical critics, theorists, and teachers have nonetheless found the school’s work compelling and challenging. This book collects ten essays by Don Bialostosky focusing specifically on the ways that Bakhtin’s work conceptualizes and elaborates the functions of rhetoric, including dialogism, the art of discourse, poetics, carnivalesque, and much more.

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• Publié par: Parlor Press, LLC
• Date de parution: 01 janvier 2016
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• EAN13: 9781602357280
• Langue: English

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Mikhail Bakhtin
Rhetoric, Poetics, Dialogics, Rhetoricality
Don Bialostosky
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Title: Mikhail Bakhtin : rhetoric, poetics, dialogics, rhetoricality / Don
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Contents
Abbreviations Used in Text and Notes
Preface
1 . Introduction
Part I. Dialogics, Rhetoric, Criticism
2 . Dialogics as an Art of Discourse
3. Booth, Bakhtin, and the Culture of Criticism
4. Rhetoric, Literary Criticism, Theory, and Bakhtin
5. Bakhtin and Rhetorical Criticism
6. Antilogics, Dialogics, and Sophistic Social Psychology
Part II. Architectonics, Poetics, Rhetoricality, Liberal Education
7. Bakhtin’s “Rough Draft”
8. Architectonics, Rhetoric, and Poetics in the Bakhtin School’s Early Phenomenological and Sociological Texts
9. Aristotle’s Rhetoric and Bakhtin’s Discourse Theory
10. Rereading the Place of Rhetoric in Aristotle’s Poetics in Light of Bakhtin’s Discourse Theory: Rhetoric as Dianoia, Poetics as an Imitation of Rhetoric
11. Liberal Education, Writing, and the Dialogic Self
Notes
Works Cited
About the Author
Index for Print Edition


Abbreviations Used in Text and Notes
AA
Bakhtin, M. M. Art and Answerability: Early Philosophical Essays of M. M. Bakhtin. Ed. Michael Holquist and Vadim Liapunov. Trans. Vadim Liapunov. Austin: U of Texas P, 1990.
DI
Bakhtin, M. M. The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by M. M. Bakhtin. Ed. Michael Holquist. Trans. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. Austin: U of Texas P, 1981.
DLDA
Voloshinov, V. N. “Discourse in Life and Discourse in Art.” Freudianism: A Critical Sketch. Ed. Neil H. Bruss. Trans. I. R. Titunik. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1987.
MPL
Voloshinov, V. N. Marxism and the Philoso phy of Language. Trans. L. Matejka and I. R. Titunik. New York: Seminar, 1973.
PDP
Bakhtin, M. M. Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics. Ed. and trans. Caryl Emerson. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1984.
PMN
Rorty, Richard. Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. Prince ton: Princeton UP, 1979.
SG
Bakhtin, M. M. ‘‘The Problem of Speech Genres.” Speech Genres and Other Late Essays. Ed. Michael Holquist and Caryl Emerson. Trans. Vern W. McGee. Austin: U of Texas P, 1986.
TM
Gadamer, Hans-Georg. Truth and Method. New York: Seabury, 1975.
TPA
Bakhtin, M. M. Toward a Philosophy of the Act. Ed. Vadim Liapunov and Michael Holquist. Trans. Vadim Liapunov. Austin: U of Texas P. 1993.


In Memory of Wayne Booth


Preface
I n 1983, my then new colleague at State University of New York at Stony Brook, Peter Elbow, kindly invited me, a then new Romanticist in the English department, to present a paper at the 1984 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) convention on Mikhail Bakhtin’s implications for authentic voice in composition. It would be my first CCCC convention, conveniently in New York City. The last chapter in this volume grew out of the paper I wrote for Peter, enhanced and re-contextualized first at a conference on Interpretive Communities and the Undergraduate Writer in Chicago and again at the invitation of Patty Harkin and John Schilb, who included it in their Modern Language Association (MLA) volume Contending With Words and thereby included me in the community of rhetoric and composition scholars that has, over the past thirty years, become my primary scholarly community.
Rhetoric had been with me from my undergraduate days at the University of Chicago, where I first met it through Wayne Booth—later my thesis director—to whose memory I dedicate this volume, and Charles Wegener, my undergraduate mentor and first teacher of a formal course on rhetoric my sophomore year. Composition has grown to accompany rhetoric for me through those early invitations, through the great opportunity I had to organize a rhetorical theory colloquium at the University of Toledo in the late eighties and early nineties, through my time in the rhetoric and composition program at Penn State in the nineties and into the beginning of the new century, and most recently in the composition, literacy, pedagogy, and rhetoric group that I joined at the University of Pittsburgh in 2003. Colleagues in all these institutions too numerous to name here have enriched my investment in the field and prompted much of the thinking this volume represents, as have colleagues I have met at the CCCCs, the Rhetoric Society of America conferences, and conferences of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric.
The community of theorists and scholars that quickly gathered around the emerging translations of the Bakhtin School also sustained and provoked the work that is gathered here. The late Michael Sprinker, then at Oregon State University and later a colleague at Stony Brook, generously hosted my visit from the University of Washington to meet and hear Michael Holquist before The Dialogic Imagination came out in 1981. Clive Thomson welcomed me to a gathering on Bakhtin that he organized at the University of Toronto again early in the eighties—a conference that was the starting point for a series of biennial international Bakhtin conferences, the most recent of which I attended in Stockholm in 2014. He also involved me in the early years of reviewing articles for the Bakhtin Newsletter that chronicled annual publications on the Bakhtin School until the numbers became too numerous to keep up with.
I make these acknowledgments partly to situate the thirty years of work finally gathered in this volume, even more to call attention, in good Bakhtinian form, to the many interlocutors whose voices prompted and shaped my own and to the academic institutions that constitute the sphere of communication in which they were produced and previously published. Editors of collections and journals and publishers, too, are part of that sphere, and I am grateful to all of the following for permission to include my previously published work here: The Modern Language Association for “Dialogics as an Art of Discourse in Literary Criticism,” PMLA (1986), and “Liberal Education, Writing, and the Dialogic Self,” in Contending with Words, edited by Patricia Harkin and John Schilb (1991). Critical Studies for “Dialogic, Pragmatic, and Hermeneutic Conversation: Bakhtin, Gadamer, Rorty” (1989). Fred J. Antczak for “Booth, Bakhtin, and the Culture of Criticism” in Rhetoric and Pluralism: Legacies of Wayne Booth (1975). Rhetoric Society of America for “Architectonics, Rhetoric, and Poetics in the Bakhtin School’s Early Phenomenological and Sociological Texts” (2006), and for “Bakhtin and the Future of Rhetorical Criticism: A Response to Halasek and Bernard-Donals” I am also grateful to Kay Halasek and Michael Bernard-Donals, two scholars in the field who have since published books on Bakhtin, for inviting me to respond to their session on Bakhtin and Rhetorical Criticism at the 1990 MLA Convention. Sage Publications for “Rhetoric in Literary Criticism and Theory” in The Sage Handbook of Rhetorical Studies, edited by Andrea A. Lunsford, Kirt H. Wilson, and Rosa Eberly (2009). Rhetoric Review for “Bakhtin’s ‘Rough Draft’: Toward a Philosophy of the Act, Ethics, and Composition Studies” (1999); its reviewers John Schilb and James Zebroski made the piece better. Cambridge University Press for “Antilogics, Dialogics, and Sophistic Social Psychology: Michael Billig’s Reinvention of Bakhtin from Protagorean Rhetoric” in Rhetoric, Pragmatism, Sophistry, edited by Steven Mailloux (1995). Wiley for “Aristotle’s Rhetoric and Bakhtin’s Discourse Theory” in A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism edited by Walter Jost and Wendy Olmsted (2004).
I have combined and modified some of these pieces as seemed warranted. Chapter 10 has not previously been published, though an earlier version has been circulating on my Academia.edu website.
I am grateful to David Blakesley at Parlor Press for venturing to publish a collection composed of widely dispersed previously published work that few presses these days would be willing to take a chance on. I hope that his faith in this project will be justified.
It has been a long time since my work has appeared in a monograph and