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Contributors include Caryl Emerson, Gary Saul Morson, R. Bracht Branham, Dale E. Peterson, Lisa Eckstrom, Stanley Aronowitz, Vincent Crapanzano, John Dore, and Amy Mandelker.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Dialogue on Every Corner, Bakhtin in Every Class 1Pt. 1 Bakhtin and Literary StudiesSlavic StudiesProsaic Bakhtin: Landmarks, Anti-Intelligentsialism, and the Russian Countertradition 33ClassicsInventing the Novel 79African American StudiesResponse and Call: The African American Dialogue with Bakhtin and What It Signifies 89American LiteratureMoral Perception and the Chronotope: The Case of Henry James 99Pt. 2 Bakhtin and Social TheorySociologyLiterature as Social Knowledge: Mikhail Bakhtin and the Reemergence of the Human Sciences 119AnthropologyThe Postmodern Crisis: Discourse, Parody, Memory 137LinguisticsThe Emergence of Language from Dialogue 151SemioticsLogosphere and Semiosphere: Bakhtin, Russian Organicism, and the Semiotics of Culture 177Notes 191Notes on Contributors 217