As interest in the work of Bakhtin grows there is an increasing demand for a well organized, readable text which explains his main ideas and relates them to current social and cultural theory. This book fulfils the demand.

Preface. Introduction. 1: The 1920s Writings. 2: The 1930s and 1940s Writings. 3: The Bakhtin Circle and the Theory of Ideology. 4: Bakhtin's Critical Hermeneutics. 5: Bakhtin, Ideology and Neo-Structuralism. 6: Towards a Dialogical Ideological Criticism. Bibliography.