- Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies
- Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism
- Linguistics and Education Research
- Eastern European Communism and Reforms
- Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication
- Sociopolitical Dynamics in Russia
- Education, Literature, Philosophy Research
- Soviet and Russian History
- Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
- Themes in Literature Analysis
- European Cultural and National Identity
- Historical Linguistics and Language Studies
- Security, Politics, and Digital Transformation
- European Linguistics and Anthropology
- Literature, Culture, and Criticism
- Translation Studies and Practices
- Religious, Philosophical, and Educational Studies
- Linguistics and language evolution
- American Constitutional Law and Politics
- Theatre and Performance Studies
- Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics
- Musicology and Musical Analysis
- Narrative Theory and Analysis
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Cultural, Linguistic, Economic Studies
Princeton University
2013-2024
Fordham University
2023
Chiba University
2021
National Research University Higher School of Economics
2018-2020
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
2020
University of Eastern Finland
2018
Cornell University
1981-2018
University of California, Los Angeles
2018
Albany State University
2018
New York University Press
2018
Books about thinkers require a kind of unity that their thought may not possess. This cautionary statement is especially applicable to Mikhail Bakhtin, whose intellectual development displays diversity insights cannot be easily integrated or accurately described in terms single overriding concern. Indeed, career spanning some sixty years, he experienced both dramatic and gradual changes his thinking, returned abandoned then developed unexpected ways, worked through new ideas only loosely...
This book makes a radical break with earlier interpretations of Bakhtin's work. Using recent Russian scholarship, Ken Hirschkop explodes many the myths which have surrounded Bakhtin and his work lays ground for new, more historically acute sense achievement. Through comprehensive reading work, demonstrates that discussion philosophy language, literary history, popularfestive culture, phenomenology everyday life revolved around lifelong search new kind modern ethical culture. A detailed...
Mikhail Bakhtin's work on Dostoevsky is well known. Less familiar, perhaps, attitude toward the other great Russian nineteenth-century novelist, Leo Tolstoy. This essay explores that “Tolstoy connection,” both as a means for interrogating analytic categories and focus evaluating larger tradition of versus Dostoevsky.” Bakhtin not particularly good reader But he does make provocative use familiar binary model to pursue his most insistent concerns: monologism dialogism, relationship authors...
Russia is again becoming dark. In a double-edged move for imprisonment studies, Gullotta has turned patient scholarly eye on one pocket of the gulag that briefly experienced more light than most. Geographically his focus tiny, but its history stretches over half millennium. 1429, three monks founded retreat Solovetsky Islands in White Sea, Russian Far North. Consecrated as frontier monastery/fortress sixteenth century, this thriving community, rich timber and fish, played dramatic role at...
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The tale of Boris Godunov - tsar, usurper, tsarecide dating from the early seventeenth-century Time Troubles, inspired three major nineteenth-century Russian cultural expressions: in history by Nikolai Karamzin, drama Alexander Pushkin, and opera Modest Musorgsky. Each these famous creations was a vehicle for generic innovation, which specifically concept genre asserted opposition to reigning European models: German historiography, French melodrama, Italian opera. Within Bakhtinian...