Table of Contents

1. Boundaries versus Binaries 2. Aesthetics and the Avant-Garde 3. Syntax and its Subversion 4. Chronotopicity and Conceptuality 5. The Novel and its Others 6. Eternity and Modernity 7. Philosophy and Theology 8. ‘First Philosophy’ and the ‘First’ Bakhtin

About the Author

Graham Pechey was born in South Africa and educated at the universities of Natal and Cambridge. He has published numerous articles on Mikhail Bakhtin, Romantic writing, literary and cultural theory, and South African literature. Having retired in 2000 from lecturing in English at the University of Hertfordshire, he now teaches English part-time at the University of Cambridge and is a Research Associate at that university’s Centre of African Studies.