Hostname: page-component-745bb68f8f-l4dxg Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-02-02T04:43:14.975Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Dialogics as an Art of Discourse in Literary Criticism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Don H. Bialostosky
Don H. Bialostosky*
Affiliation:
State University of New York, Stony Brook
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

If a dialogics, inspired by the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, were recognized as an art of discourse on the level of the arts of rhetoric and dialectic, it might shape a critical practice different from those governed by the more familiar arts. Tzvetan Todorov's recent essay on dialogic criticism and Merle Brown's account of F. R. Leavis's “collaborative exchange” in criticism contribute to the invention of such an art; further efforts to rationalize it seem desirable and possible in the present critical conversation.

Type
Research Article
Information
PMLA , Volume 101 , Issue 5 , October 1986 , pp. 788 - 797
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1986

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Works Cited

Aristotle, Rhetoric. Trans. Cooper, Lane. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice, 1932.Google Scholar
Bakhtin, M. M. “Author and Hero in Aesthetic Activity.” Trans. Vadim Liapunov. Unpublished ts. n.d.Google Scholar
Bakhtin, M. M. The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by M. M. Bakhtin. Ed. Holquist, Michael. Trans. Emerson, Caryl and Holquist, Michael. Austin: U of Texas P, 1981.Google Scholar
Bakhtin, M. M. Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics. Ed. and trans. Emerson, Caryl. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1984.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bashford, Bruce. “The Rhetorical Method in Literary Criticism.” Philosophy and Rhetoric 9 (1976): 133–46.Google Scholar
Bialostosky, Don H. “Booth's Rhetoric, Bakhtin's Dialogics and the Future of Novel Criticism.” Novel 18 (1985): 209–16.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Booth, Wayne C. Critical Understanding: The Powers and Limits of Pluralism. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1979.Google Scholar
Booth, Wayne C. Modern Dogma and the Rhetoric of Assent. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1974.Google Scholar
Booth, Wayne C. The Rhetoric of Fiction. 2nd ed. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1983.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Brown, Merle. “The Idea of Communal Creativity in F. R. Leavis' Recent Criticism.” The Double Lyric: Divisiveness and Communal Creativity in Recent English Poetry. New York: Columbia UP, 1980. 201–22.Google Scholar
Carroll, David. “The Alterity of Discourse: Form, History, and the Question of the Political in M. M. Bakhtin.” Diacritics 13.2 (1983): 65–83.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Clark, Katerina, and Holquist, Michael. Mikhail Bakhtin. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1984.Google Scholar
de Man, Paul. “Dialogue and Dialogism.” Poetics Today 4 (1983): 99–107.Google Scholar
de Man, Paul. “Part I. Rhetoric.” Allegories of Reading. New Haven: Yale UP, 1979. 1–131.Google Scholar
Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1983.Google Scholar
Eagleton, Terry. Walter Benjamin: Or, Toward a Revolutionary Criticism. London: Verso, 1981.Google Scholar
Emerson, Caryl. “The Tolstoy Connection in Bakhtin.” PMLA 100 (1985): 68–80.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gadamer, Hans-Georg. Truth and Method. New York: Seabury, 1975.Google Scholar
Gentile, Giovanni. Genesis and Structure of Society. Trans. Harris, H. S. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1966.Google Scholar
Jameson, Fredric. Marxism and Form: Twentieth-Century Dialectical Theories of Literature. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1971.Google Scholar
LaCapra, Dominick. “Bakhtin, Marxism, and the Carnivalesque.” Rethinking Intellectual History: Texts, Contexts, Language. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1983. 291–324.Google Scholar
Lentricchia, Frank. Criticism and Social Change. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1983.Google Scholar
McCloskey, Donald N. “The Rhetoric of Economics.” Journal of Economic Literature 21 (1983): 481–517.Google Scholar
McGann, Jerome J. “Some Forms of Critical Discourse.” Critical Inquiry 11 (1985): 399–417.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mailloux, Steven. “Rhetorical Hermeneutics.” Critical Inquiry 11 (1985): 620–41.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Martin, Jane Roland. Reclaiming a Conversation: The Ideal of the Educated Woman. New Haven: Yale UP, 1985.Google Scholar
Martin, Wallace. Recent Theories of Narrative. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1986.Google Scholar
Medvedev, P. N., and Bakhtin, M. M. The Formal Method in Literary Scholarship. Trans. Wehrle, Albert. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1978.Google Scholar
Miller, J. Hillis. “On Edge: The Crossways of Contemporary Criticism.” Romanticism and Contemporary Criticism. Ed. Eaves, Morris and Fischer, Michael. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1986. 96–111.Google Scholar
Nussbaum, Martha. “Women's Lot.” New York Review of Books 30 Jan. 1986: 7–12.Google Scholar
Richards, I. A. Principles of Literary Criticism. 1925. New York: Harvest, 1961.Google Scholar
Rorty, Richard. Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1979.Google Scholar
Ryan, Michael. Marxism and Deconstruction: A Critical Articulation. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1982.Google Scholar
Todorov, Tzvetan. Critique de la critique. Paris: Seuil, 1984.Google Scholar
Todorov, Tzvetan. “A Dialogic Criticism?” Trans. Richard Howard. Raritan 4 (1984): 64–76.Google Scholar
Todorov, Tzvetan. Mikhail Bakhtin: The Dialogical Principle. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1984.Google Scholar
Trimpi, Wesley. Muses of One Mind: The Literary Analysis of Experience and Its Continuity. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1983.Google Scholar
Vološinov, V. N. [M. M. Bakhtin]. Marxism and the Philosophy of Language. Trans. Matejka, L. and Titunik, I. R. New York: Seminar, 1973.Google Scholar
Watkins, Evan. The Critical Act. New Haven: Yale UP, 1978.Google Scholar
Wess, Robert. “Notes toward a Marxist Rhetoric.” Bucknell Review 28 (1983): 126–48.Google Scholar