Mikhail Bakhtin, Art and Answerability: Early Philosophical Essays by M. M. Bakhtin

Lindsay Sullivan (Cardiff University)
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Art and Answerability

is the third volume of Bakhtin translations to appear in the University of Texas Slavic Series. It contains a detailed introduction by Michael Holquist and the essays “Art and Answerability” (1919), “Author and Hero in Aesthetic Activity”, (c. 1920-1923) and “The Problem of Content, Material, and Form in Verbal Art” (1924). The essays are fragmentary and incomplete. Bakhtin's works have had a complicated publication record both while he was alive and since his death. The volume entitled

Art and Answerability

did not start out as a unified collection of essays, but they are thematically linked through their exploration of the relationship between the self and the other, and the nature of aesthetics.

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Citation: Sullivan, Lindsay. "Art and Answerability: Early Philosophical Essays by M. M. Bakhtin". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 27 August 2004 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=6512, accessed 26 November 2024.]

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