The Other Bakhtin and Bakchtin?s Others 3001-A864TL2
I.
The hero of the seminar is Mikhail Bakhtin - the author we all know from the list of compulsory readings in Poetics as well as the author we don't know at all. The knowledge of Bakhtin's life, work, and of their intellectual and artistic historical context in Poland is scarce, especially against the background of world Bakhtin studies (the same goes for knowledge of literary scholarship in eastern and central Europe, including Polish science). We do not have even one decent monograph. Backlog in translations brings us to shame. Ignorance is so abysmal that we naturalize the fundamental Bakhtins notions through the medium of English translations and so we use to a greater extent terms 'heteroglozja', 'multilingwizm', 'egzotopia'. We give poststructuralists and deconstructionists credit to authorship of the (Gegeben-Aufgegeben) couple, the "other", or else the "dialogue". In this circumstances, it is important to go back to the source, i.e. to take up analysis of Bakhtin's life and works, analysis of his "circles" (Newel school of philosophy, Vitebsk School, Petersburg School), the works devoted to him and the works (literary, too) written under his influence. The Seminar does welcome not only bakhtinologists but everyone interested in the changes in modern literary science, in particular in Russian and Polish researchers who still await their discoverers. In brief, anyone who likes the idea that literary theory was born at the beginning of the twentieth century in no other place than eastern and central Europe.
II. A participant will get familiar with theoretical and anthropological Russian and Polish texts from the twenties and thirties, he or she will develop skills of analyzing and interpreting them in their parent context, will learn about their continuations in contemporary literary studies. He or she will become capable of connecting the texts with Avant-Garde painting, music, literature, and with socio-political context. Practical expertise to acquire at the seminar: to think up a subject of Master's thesis, to put together its conspectus and bibliography, to analyze sources, to compose the outcome of the research into a whole that would be acceptable as a Master's thesis.
III. List of topics:
1. Bakhtin - life and works.
2. Biography as a narrative of culture.
3. Chronology as a genre in literary scholarship.
5. Val'entin Vološynov - "not a mitologem". The foundation of social poetics.
6. Pavel' Miedviediev - the Formalism debate. Semiotics disguised as Marxism.
7. Spectres of Formalism. Count Zubov.
8. Polish Formalism. Hopensztand and sociology of literary forms.
9. Painters and philosophers of painting (Kandinsky, Florenski, Malevič), musicians and musicologists (Judina, Šostakovič) and their stance towards literary theory.
10. Literary sciences and natural sciences ("chronotop").
11. Theory of literature - the phenomenon of city (Witebsk, Sankt Petersburg, Warszawa, Wilno, Praga).
12. "The states of literary theory": linguistics, philosophy, social thought, religious studies, art theory, artistic practices. Anthropology of literary science.
13. Bakhtinian inspirations in world literary science.
14. Bakhtin's influence on literature (Russian, Polish, and English texts). Lodge, Eco, Skrzyposzek.
15. Reinterpretations of Bakhtin in different trends in poststructuralism.
16. Dialogicity of the word.
17. Genres of utterance in the light of linguistic genology.
18. Problem of the text.
19. Textual hybrids.
20. Note and fragment as forms of utterance in literary sciences.
21. Subject of utterance in culture. Problem of the author.
22. Forms of transmission of other's speech. Three stylistics.
23. Carnival and carnivalisation.
IV. Students are graded each semester on a basis of a report they make on general readings in the first semester, and on individual bibliography in the second. Completion of a year requires formulation of their theses' subject, preparation of its conspectus and bibliography.
Type of course
Bibliography
I Texts by Bakthtin and/or his "circles"
/1/ Michaił M. Bachtin, Sobranije soczinienij : wybrane rozprawy z tomów: t. 1: Moskwa 2003; t. 2: Moskwa 2000; t. 5: Moskwa 1996; t. 6: Moskwa 2002;
/2/ M. M. Bachtin (Pod maskoj). Frojdizm. Formal'nyj mietod w litieraturowiedienii. Marksizm i fiłosofija jazyka. Stat'ti, Moskwa 2000;
/3/ Bachtin. Dialog - język - literatura, red. E. Czaplejewicz i E. Kasperski, Warszawa 1983;
/4/ M. M. Bachtin, Problemy poetyki Dostojewskiego, przeł. N. Modzelewska, Warszawa 1970;
/5/ M. M. Bachtin, Twórczość Francoisa Rabelais'go a ludowa kultura średniowiecza i renesansu, przeł. A. i A. Goreniowe, Kraków 1975;
/6/ M. M. Bachtin, Problemy literatury i estetyki, przeł. W. Grajewski, Warszawa 1984;
/7/ M. M. Bachtin, Estetyka twórczości słownej, przeł. D. Ulicka, Warszawa 1989;
/8/ W. W. Wołoszynow, Z historii form wypowiedzi w konstrukcjach języka, przeł. Z. Saloni, w: Rosyjska szkoła stylistyki, red. M. R. Mayenowa i Z. Saloni, Warszawa 1970;
/9/ P. N. Miedwiediew, Ważniejsze zadania literaturoznawstwa, przeł. E. Czaplejewicz, w: Marksizm i literaturoznawstwo współczesne, red. A. Lam i B. Owczarek, Warszawa 1979;
/10/Inne niepublikowane w Polsce teksty Bachtina, Wołoszynowa, Miedwiediewa, Kanajewa, których oryginałami i przekładami dysponuje prowadząca seminarium
II Rozprawy bachtinologiczne:
1/ The Bakhtin Circle: a Timeline, w: The Bakhtin Circle. In the Master's Absence, s. 250-275, ed. by Craig Brandist, David Shepherd, Galin Thaniov, Manchester 2004;
2/ K. Hirschkopf, Bakhtin Myths and Bakhtin History, w: jego, Mikhail Bakhtin. An Aesthetic for Democracy, s. 111-192, Oxford 1999;
3/S. Boczarow, Sobytije bytija, "Nowyj Mir" 1995, nr 11 (s. 211 -221); przedr. w: Michaił Bachtin: pro et contra. Licznost' i tworczestwo M. M. Bachtina w ocenke russkoj i mirowoj gumanitarnoj mysli. Antołogija, t. 2, s. 277-293, wyd. przygotował K. G. Isupov, Sank-Peterburg 2002;
4/ J. Miedwiediew, D. Miedwiediewa, Krug M. M. Bachtina kak "mysliaszczij kollektiw", "Zwiezda" 2006, nr 7, s. 194-206;
5/ D. Shepherd, Bakhtin and the Methodologies of the Human Sciences: the problem of the text, w: Bakhtin and His Intellectual Ambience, s. 21-33,red. Bogusław Żyłko, Gdańsk 2002;
6/ C. Emerson, Outsideness, w; jej, Thw First Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin (s. 221-242), Princeton, New Jersey, 1997;
7/ V. Liapaunov, Nieskol'ko niepritiazatiel'nych riekomendacii dlia czitajuszczich Bachtina, w: Bachtinskij sbornik V, s. 193-209, red. W. Machlin, Moskwa 2004;
8/ G. S. Morson, C. Emerson, Global Concepts: Prosaisc, Unfinalizibility, Dialogue, w: ich, Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaic, s. 15-37, Stanford Calif. 1990
9/ J. M. Curtis, Michael Bakhtin, Nietzsche, and Russian prerevolutionary thought, w: Nietzsche in Russia, s. 331-354, ed. Berenice Glatzer Rosenthal, Princeton 1986;
10/ N. Braginska, Słowianskoje wozrożdienije anticznosti, w: Russkaja tieorija 1920-1930 gody. Matieriały 10-ch Łotmanowskich cztienij. Moskwa diekabr' 2002, s. 49-80, Moskwa 2004;
11/ K. Clark, M. Holquist, Freudianism, w: ich, Mikhail Bakhtin, s. 171-185, Cambridge Mass. and London 1984;
12/ C. Brandist, The Vygotskii and Bachtin Circles: Explaining the convergence ( 21 stron maszyn.); artykuł niepublikowany, powstały w ramach projektu The rise of Sociological Linguistics in the Soviet Union, 1917-1938: Institutions, Ideas and Agendas, prowadzonego przez the Bakhtin Centre, Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies at the University of Sheffield, U.K.
13/ P. de Man, Dialogue and Dialogism, w: jego, The Resistance to theory, s. 106-114 (wg. wyd. 3 1993), foreword by Wlad Godzich, Minneapolis - London 1986;
14/ D. LaCapra, Bakhtin, Marxism and the carnivalesque, w: jego, Rethinking Intellectual History. Texts, Contexts, Language, s.291-324, Ithaca and London 1983;
15/D. Carroll, Narrative heterogenity, and the question of the political: Bakhtin and Lyotard, w: The Aims of Representation. Subject/Text/History, s. 69-105, ed. by Murray
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