CONTENTS

Introduction to the Series

About the Contributors

Transliteration and Translation

Abbreviations

Introduction
Beginning the Dialogue: Bakhtin and Others

Peter I. Barta et al

1 Alienated Couples in Euripidean Tragedy: A Bakhtinian Analysis

Nancy Felson

2 Novelistic Discourse in Aristophanes

Charles Platter

3 Victory without Defeat? Carnival Laughter and Its Appropriation in Pindar's Victory Odes

Nigel Nicholson

4 Degenerate Neoptolemus: Praise Poetry and the Novelization of the Aeneid

Jeffrey S. Carnes

5 The Tomb of Epic: Bakhtinian Parody and Petronius' Tale of the Widow of Ephesus

Daniel B. McGlathery

6 The Otherness of History in Rabelais' Carnival and Juvenal's Satire, or Why Bakhtin Got it Right the First Time

Paul Allen Miller

7 The Last Laugh: Carnivalizing the Feminine in Piron's La Puce

Sharon Diane Nell

8 Carnivalizing Irish Catholicism: Austin Clarke's The Sun Dances at Easter

José Lanters

9 Reading the Other, Reading Other Readings: Bakhtin, Willa Cather and the Dialogics of Critical Response

Christian Moraru

10 Difference and Convention: Bakhtin and the Practice of Travel Literature

Stacy Burton

11 Bakhtin in Brooklyn: Language in Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing

Dean McWilliams

Index