Mikhail Bakhtin’s Heritage in Literature, Arts, and Psychology

A wonderful collection of essays that connects the traditional Bakhtin of philology, social ethics, and grotesque realism with more recent themes: quixotic films, a poet’s monologism, the moving body. Global in scope, it celebrates that larger, more multi-voiced and fearless world that Bakhtin himself dreamed of but never knew. -- Caryl Emerson, A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University
This fascinating volume successfully demonstrates the growing influence of Mikhail Bakhtin across diverse disciplines, featuring scholarship in narratology, poetics, film, popular culture, psychology, philosophy, disability studies as well as from a variety of literary traditions. Moreover, it exemplifies Bakhtin’s global impact, including scholars from Europe, Eastern Europe, the Americas, and Asia who take up topics that are just as geographically diverse. Its robust global and comparative focus signals the power of Bakhtin’s ideas to continue to inspire creative, new applications that will change how we understand the arts, ourselves, and the world. -- Scott Pollard, Christopher Newport University
In the 80s, rediscovering Bakhtin led criticism out of the post-structuralist 'wilderness.' Now Gratchev and Mancing’s wide-ranging volume rescues us from the crisis in the humanities with a roadmap for deep interdisciplinarity that crisscrosses literature, other arts, philosophy, and psychology. While mirroring Bakhtin’s breadth, this collection finds its underlying leitmotif in his spiritual twin, Miguel de Cervantes. Bravo! -- William Childers, Brooklyn College