V.E. Khalizev in the History of Russian Reception of M.M. Bakhtin’s Personality and Ideas

Оsovsky Oleg E.,

DSc in Philology, Professor,

Director of Research

Mordovia State Pedagogical University

e-mail: osovskiy_oleg@mail.ru

Dubrovskaya Svetlana A.,

DSc in Philology,

Professor at the Department of Russian as a Foreign Language,

Deputy Director for Research of the M.M. Bakhtin Centre

National Research Mordovia State University

e-mail: s.dubrovskaya@bk.ru

The article is the first to examine V.E. Khalizev’s perception of M.M. Bakhtin’s personality and ideas in the context of the national history of Bakhtin’s reception in the 1960s–2010s. Based on his memoirs and articles, we reconstruct the ‘personal trajectory’ of the formation of Bakhtin’s image and the presentation of his scientific heritage as one of the most important achievements of twentieth-century Russian scholarship on literature and culture. Three problem points have been identified: personal perception, reflected in diary entries and memoir essays, direct participation in Bakhtin’s events, and intense dialogue with Bakhtin in his own scholarly work at the turn of the twentieth and twenty first centuries. The special role played in Khalizev’s perception of Bakhtin by V.N. Turbin, his colleague at the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University and the closest member of the Moscow ‘Bakhtin circle’, is emphasised. It is argued that Khalisev’s final reassessment of the significance of Bakhtin’s scholarly legacy occurs in the second half of the 1980s and early 1990s with the discovery of the scholar's early philosophical texts. Throughout his dialogue with Bakhtin, Khalizev maintains a strict scientific objectivity, combining in his works a thoughtful analysis of Bakhtin’s innovations with a tactful critique of those postulates which, following his teacher G.N. Pospelov, he might classify as ‘exaggerations of passion’.

Keywords: M.M. Bakhtin, V.E. Khalisev, G.N. Pospelov, reception of scientific heritage, ‘personal trajectories’ of reception, theory of literature, historical poetics, concept of laughter, philosophy of culture

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