Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice. CONTENIDO: Language -- Who speaks for Bakhtin? / Gary Saul Morson -- The outer word and inner speech : Bakhtin, Vygotsky, and the internationalization of language / Caryl Emerson -- Shouts on the street : Bakhtin's anti-linguistics / Susan Stewart -- Answering as authoring : Mikhail Bakhtin's trans-linguistics / Michael Holquist -- A Response to the forum on Mikhail Bakhtin / Ken Hirschkop -- Dialogue, monologue, and the social : a reply to Ken Hirschkop / Gary Saul Morson -- Introduction to extracts from "The problem of speech genres" / Mikhail Bakhtin -- Literature -- When the carnival turns bitter : preliminary reflections upon the abject hero / Michael Andre Bernstein -- Tolstoy's absolute language / Gary Saul Morson -- Freedom of interpretation : Bakhtin and the challenge of feminist criticism / Wayne C. Booth -- Introduction to extracts from "Notes" (1970-71) -- Extracts from "Notes" (1970-71) / Mikhail Bakhtin.
