In his 1997 book review of Caryl Emerson’s The First Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin, Scott McLemee is critical of “the Americanized version of Bakhtin” as “a sort of New Left celebrator of popular culture, maybe with a little Richard Rorty thrown in.” Equally troubling has been the institutionalization of “Bakhtinology,” in the U.S. It is Bakhtin’s notion of carnival that has come to have “the greatest influence among scholars around the world not only in literary criticism but in folklore studies and cultural history as well.” “It has also exercised a strong appeal for the left,” with “the radically democratic essence of carnival” recently become “a cliché of academic discourse on Bakhtin, at least in the United States.” (McLemee 1997) Indeed, Bakhtin has long been considered one of the leading thinkers of the 20th century. MIKHAIL MIKHAILOVICH BAKHTIN (1895≡975) was a Russian literary critic whose studies of psychoanalysis, critical method, and the theory of language have important implications for such disciplines as philosophy, anthropology, and history.
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