E. V. Ramakrishnan, formerly Professor Emeritus at the School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies in Central University of Gujarat, is a bilingual critic, poet and translator. He has published several volumes of criticism in Malayalam and English, and poetry in English. His well-known publications include Making It New: Modernism in Malayalam, Marathi and Hindi Poetry, The Tree of Tongues: An Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry, Locating Indian Literature: Texts, Traditions, Translations (Orient BlackSwan), Indigenous Imaginaries: Literature, Region, Modernity (Orient BlackSwan), and the co-edited Bakhtinian Explorations of Indian Culture: Pluralism, Dogma and Dialogue through History.

Preface

1. Mikhail Bakhtin: An Introduction
2. Mikhail Bakhtin: Contexts and Concepts
3. From Answerability to Unfinalisability: Bakhtin’s Philosophical Ideas on the Artistic Process
4. Dostoevsky’s Polyphonic Novel: Concepts and Categories
5. Carnival and Its Ethos: Implications for Literature and Culture
6. A Theory of the Novel: Dialogic Imagination, Heteroglossia, Chronotope and Discourse in the Novel
7. Bakhtin and Beyond: Implications of Bakhtin’s Theories and Concepts for Humanities and Literary Theory

Glossary of Select Terms
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