Background
Holquist, James Michael was born on December 20, 1935 in Rockford, Illinois, United States. Son of Leonard and Billye Alverta (Appleby) Holquist.
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What place do Dostoevsky's works occupy in the history of the novel? To answer this question, Michael Holquist focuses on the formal aspects of Dostoevskian narrative. The author argues that the novel is a genre that constantly seeks its own identity: we still do not know what it is, since the uniqueness of its members defines the class to which it belongs. This anomaly explains the central role of the novel for Russians, perplexed as they were in the nineteenth century by idiosyncrasies that hindered development of a coherent national identity. Michael Holquist shows that the generic impulse of the novel to explore the mysteries of individual biography met and fused in Dostoevsky's works with the national quest of the Russians for an identity of their own. The paradox of the writer's achievement consists in the degree to which his meditations on the significance of being without a past are grounded in history. Originally published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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( In such diverse fields as semiotics, literary theory, s...)
In such diverse fields as semiotics, literary theory, social theory, linguistics, psychology, and anthropology, Mikhail Bakhtin's importance is increasingly recognized. His posthumous fame comes in striking contrast to his obscurity during his lifetime (1895-1975), much of it spent as a semi-invalid in a succession of provincial towns. He received no public recognition, in the Soviet Union or abroad, until the last dozen years of his long life--not surprisingly, given the historical circumstances. His books on Freudianism (1927), on Formalism(1928), and on Marxism and the philosophy of language (1929) were published as the work of others, as were a number of important essays. His study of Dostoevsky appeared under his own name but only after his arrest and sentence to exile, and it quickly disappeared from sight. Some manuscripts were never published; one was used by Bakhtin for cigarette paper. His book on Rabelais, completed in 1940, remained unpublished for twenty-five years--until, in a less repressive political climate, friends had succeeded in negotiating a reissue of the book on Dostoevsky. The Rabelais book, when translated, caused a stir among folklorists, anthropologists, and social historians, with its theory of carnival and of ritual inversions of hierarchy. The book on Dostoevsky aroused intense interest among literary theorists in the concept of the "polyphonic novel" and the many authorial voices to be heard therein. Similarly, as Bakhtin's other writings have appeared in translation, he has been hailed in disparate circles for his contributions to linguistic, psychoanalytic, and social theory. But among all those who have studied various aspects of Bakhtin's work, few have been in a position, or even attempted, to assess his total achievement. It is the great merit of Clark and Holquist's book that they have endeavored, insofar as possible, to give us the complete life and the complete works of this complex and multifaceted figure. The authors have had unique access to the Bakhtin archive in Moscow, have traced further material in other cities in Europe, and have interviewed many persons who knew Bakhtin. The phases of his life are placed in their physical and intellectual milieux, and accounts are given of the figures who made up the various "Bakhtin circles" over the years. All of the works, published and unpublished, are discussed, in the context of European philosophical movements and the currents of thought of the time. Underlying and informing Bakhtin's particular theories in various fields was, in the authors' view, his lifelong meditation on the relation between self and other. The philosophy he evolved has come to be called dialogism, since it conceives of the world in terms of communication and exchange. It is a world view with wide-ranging implications for the human sciences.
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Russian and comparative literature educator
Holquist, James Michael was born on December 20, 1935 in Rockford, Illinois, United States. Son of Leonard and Billye Alverta (Appleby) Holquist.
Bachelor with highest honors, University Illinois, 1963. Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1968. Doctor of Philosophy honoris causa, University Stockholm, Sweden, 2001.
Assistant professor Yale University, New Haven, 1968-1972, associate professor, 1972-1975. Associate professor, department chairman University Texas, Austin, 1976-1978, professor, 1978-1980. Professor Slavic languages and literature department, chairman Indiana University, Bloomington, 1981-1985.
Professor comparative literature, director literature major Yale University, 1986-1991, chairman council on Russian and East European studies, 1992-1998, chairman department comparative literature, 1998—2003, Northrop Frye professor literature theory, 2000. Senior scholar Columbia University, since 2006. Co-owner Loire Wines, LLC.
Christian Gauss lecturer Princeton University, 1991. National Endowment of the Humanities exchangee Soviet Academy of Sciences, 1983. Member executive committee and editorial board PMLA.
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( What place do Dostoevsky's works occupy in the history ...)
( What place do Dostoevsky's works occupy in the history ...)
Served with United States Army, 1958-1961. Member Modern Language Association (Second vice president 2005, 1st vice president since 2006), Modern Language Association (president 2007)American Association Advancement of Slavic Studies, International Bakhtin Society (newsletter editor since 1982), International Dostoevsky Society, American Association Teachers Slavic and East European Languages, Grotesque Club, Mory's Associates, Elizabethan Club.
Married Lydia Landis, July 30, 1960 (divorced December 1972). Children: Peter Isaac, Benjamin Michael, Joshua Appleby. Married Katerina Clark, April 15, 1974 (divorced May 1999).
Children: Nicholas Manning, Sebastian. Married Elise Snyder, November 6, 1999.