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Bakhtin and His Echoes
This chapter presents in more detail a contemporary of both Saussure and Chomsky: Mikhail Bakhtin, whose proto-pragmatism sets the scene for a...
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Bakhtin and Cities: Petersburg, Paris, and Rome
Russian modernism, focused in St Petersburg and in Moscow, takes many forms. One of its most striking was with the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, perhaps...
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Bakhtin and Cities: Petersburg, Paris, and Rome
Russian modernism, focused in St Petersburg and in Moscow, takes many forms. One of its most striking was with the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, perhaps...
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The Novel as a Challenge to the Concept of Literature
This article takes two supposedly emergent genres of contemporary fiction – »autofiction« and the »theory novel« – and holds them up to a critical...
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Black Time Travel, Chronotopicity, and the Reparative Desire for Beauty in Pauline E. Hopkins’s Of One Blood: Or, The Hidden Self
Contrary to H. G. Wells’s Time Traveler, who flings himself into futurity, Pauline E. Hopkins’s mixed-race protagonists, Reuel Briggs and Dianthe...
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Saussurean Linguistics and Bakhtin’s Critique
This chapter briefly reviews the important contributions to the study of linguistics by Ferdinand de Saussure, followed by a critique of these...
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Der Computerspielroman: Storyworld Narrative, Novelization und das Netzwerk des Romans
In diesem Aufsatz wird eine Vorstellung der Beziehung zwischen Romanen und Computerspielen in der Gegenwart vorgestellt. Es wird vorgeschlagen,...
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Historical Introduction
Part 1 of the book deals with changes in Russian literary historiography and secondary-school literary education in the post-Soviet years. I discuss...
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Storied Road: Ambivalence in the Landscape of American Automobility
This introduction to the larger study of early American road narrative draws on an array of archival material to map and theorize the emergence of...
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‘Friendly Opposites’: Religion, Affiliation, and Comedy
In this chapter, both authors’ development of religious models of affiliation serves to highlight another kind of relation (in addition to the...
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Literature’s Theories
The assumption sustained in this article is as basic as it is simple: theory is an integrated dimension of any work of fiction, not a conceptual...
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Making the Multiple: Gender and the Technologies of Multiplicity in Cyberpunk Science Fiction
This chapter examines the construction of multiple identity, and the technologies that enable it, in two science fiction novels: Laura Mixon’s Glass...
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Analytical vs. Synthetic Theories in 1920s Russia
It was almost a century ago that a double polarity emerged in the Russian episteme, and in particular in the theory of art and literature. The...
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Epidemic Narrative: Two Paradigms
The suffering caused by disease and what it portends have been a major theme of narratives, from stories of illness in fiction and autobiography to...
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Shairi and Malumbano: The Tradition of Verbal Warfare in Swahili Literature
In his study of East African poetry, Njogu challenges the Bakhtinian view that the novel is a distinctly dialogic form, and therefore, it is superior...
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The tension within the “specter” of Bakhtin and narrative theory
In the history of contemporary narrative theory, Mikhail Bakhtin exists like a unique “specter” due to his narrative theories, which are classified...
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The Literary Vector
In his summing up of the spatial turn, as it stood in 2012, Robert Tally Jr. explained the elements of literary cartography using the concepts of...
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Distancing, the Pandemic, and Our Tragic Condition
During the global covid-19 crisis that started in 2020, one of the most important lessons we have learned is the need to keep a safe distance to...
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Mobility, Architecture, Chronotopes: 1930s Colonialism and Tourist Consumerism in Tian**’s Italian Concession
As Italy’s only Asian colonial possession, the Tian** concession was important for articulating the country’s imperial ambitions in East Asia, in...
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Contextualism
In this chapter, we explore at length the second of the theoretical approaches to cognition, contextualism, recommending it as the ideal framework...