讲座题目：FERRYING A THINKER ACROSS TIME AND LANGUAGE: THE NEXT EIGHTY-TWO YEARS OF MIKHAIL BAKHTIN

讲座摘要：

This paper is an attempt to understand how the work of a thinker travels across time, and what journeying through language(s) has to do with these peregrinations. There is more at stake in this process than the certainty of canonisation would suggest. I want to examine the principal trajectories of appropriating Bakhtin in the West since the 1960s; this will allow me to revisit the question of Bakhtin’s longevity, and the potential of his work to gain traction in current debates on literature in the classroom and beyond. My approach to Bakhtin’s legacy is sustained by a wider theory of translation which understands translation both more globally and more historically.