'Bakhtin and his Others' offers fresh theoretical insights into Bakhtin's ideas on (inter)subjectivity and temporality, research into his theoretical backgrounds, and case studies where these insights are employed in literary analysis.

Acknowledgements; Translation and Transliteration; Introduction: The Acting Subject of Bakhtin - Liisa Steinby and Tintti Klapuri; Chapter 1: Bakhtin and Lukács: Subjectivity, Signifying Form and Temporality in the Novel - Liisa Steinby; Chapter 2: Bakhtin, Watt and the Early Eighteenth-Century Novel - Aino Mäkikalli; Chapter 3: Concepts of Novelistic Polyphony: Person-Related and Compositional-Thematic - Liisa Steinby; Chapter 4: Familiar Otherness: Peculiarities of Dialogue in Ezra Pound's Poetics of Inclusion - Mikhail Oshukov; Chapter 5: Author and Other in Dialogue: Bakhtinian Polyphony in the Poetry of Peter Reading - Christian Pauls; Chapter 6: Tradition and Genre: Thomas Kyd's 'The Spanish Tragedy' - Edward Gieskes; Chapter 7: Bakhtin's Concept of the Chronotope: The Viewpoint of an Acting Subject - Liisa Steinby; Chapter 8: The Provincial Chronotope and Modernity in Chekhov's Short Fiction -Tintti Klapuri; List of Contributors 

Liisa Steinby and Tintti Klapuri