File spoon-archives/list-proposals.archive/list-p_1995/list-p_Jun.95, message 15


Date: Sun, 11 Jun 1995 12:49:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: engcubbi-AT-ACS.EKU.EDU
Subject: Bakhtin-dialogism


After receiving several email messages voting for Bakhtin, dialogism and 
Bakhtin-dialogism as the name for the list I am proposing, I have decided 
to propose the list under the name Bakhtin-dialogism as the most 
inclusive title.

Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) was a Russian literary theorist whose theory 
of dialogue has been highly influential in a variety of fields, having 
implications for politics, linguistics, communication as well as many 
other disciplines. Dialogism is focused on the idea that culture, or even 
existence itself, is inherently responsive, involving individuals acting 
at a particular point in time and space, in reaction to what has gone and 
before and in expectation of what is to follow.

Discussions appropriate for this list include:

the life of Mikhail Bakhtin
the Bakhtin group
Bakhtin in relation to Soviet politics
questions of attribution regarding publications by the Bakhtin group
specific works written by or attributed to Bakhtin and the group

significant themes discussed by Bakhtin such as:

carnival				grotesque realism
official 	 			unofficial discourse
dialogism				monologism
utterances				speech genres
transgredience				heteroglossia
the novel				polyphony
chronotope				exotopy
architectonics

[these themes being discussed both in themselves and in application to 
various disciplines as linguistics, social theory, literary theory and so on]

The discussion of current scholarship in the above areas is also 
encouraged. 

My goal as moderator of the list is to ensure that discussion is not 
limited to simply the discussion of one theorist but also includes in-depth 
discussion of the ideas contained in the theory.


Laurie Cubbison

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