Bakhtin and His Circle: A Checklist of English Translations

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The following is a listing of writings currently available in English by Mikhail Bakhtin, along with V. N. Voloshinov and P. N. Medvedev, two colleagues belonging to what is often described now as Bakhtin's "circle" or "school" during the 1920s. It would be understating things to say that the work of all three theorists has attracted a great deal of attention recently; a symptom of this is the fact that new Russian editions of their work, as well as translations of it into many languages, continue to pour forth. Partly because of the volume of new translations, and partly because of the bibliographic complexities of their Russian publication histories, I have found that it is much too difficult for an English-language reader of these writings to get a clear view of what is available in English and how exactly such translations relate to the Russian originals. This bibliography is intended to provide an interim guide of this sort--interim because it will soon be rendered incomplete by forthcoming editions and translations of the work of all three men. However, a reasonably complete and accurate survey of available material seemed worth attempting at this point, since so much has already been done to make the writings of Bakhtin and his associates available. It is my hope to issue supplements to this checklist as necessary, and I invite contributions from those who may discover omissions or mistakes.

The format of this bibliography is as follows. Part 1 lists all English-language volumes cited more than once in the remainder of the bibliography--volumes, that is, containing translations of two or more works by Bakhtin, Medvedev, or Voloshinov; these are listed alphabetically by the abbreviations under which they are subsequently cited.

Part 2, on Bakhtin, is subdivided into two sections, the first listing information on the three Russian anthologies of Bakhtin's work published (thus far) since his rehabilitation in the early 1960s; these are listed chronologically by date, and it is under these dates that they are cited in …