Kenneth Burke and Mikhail Bakhtin: A Common Chronology
Burke Timeline |
Bakhtin Timeline |
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| b. 5 May 1897 | b. 16 Nov 1895 | ||
| ss | 1913-1918 | classics and philology at U of Petrograd | |
| 1915 | Graduates Peabody High School, Pittsburgh. Living in Weehauken, Is sponsored by Louis Wilkinson and introduced to Theodore Dreiser. | ||
| 1916 | Spends one semester at Ohio State and does not return. | ||
| 1916-1918 | publishes in little magazines. Acquires Marxist/progressive literary credentials. | 1918 | moves to Nevel during revolution. Teaches school, lectures on philosophy, religion, politics. Participates in study circles with Medvedev and Voloshinov. |
| 1919 | Marries Lily Batterham and moves to Greenwich Village. Some of his work is suppressed due to Red Scare. | First short essay, "Art and Answerability," published in an anthology, Den'iskusstva (The Day of Art), in Nevel. | |
| ss | 1920 | Settles in Vitebsk. Continues meeting with Medvedev and Voloshinov. Work on aesthetics and answerability (Author and Hero in Aesthetic Activity, Toward a Philosophy of the Act) | |
| 1921 | Begins correspondence with William Carlos Williams. Begins writing critical essays for The Dial. | ||
| 1922-1923 | Begins translating Thomas Mann. "The Correspondence of Flaubert" (CS). Begins full time editorial position at The Dial. | ||
| 1924 | The White Oxen and Other Stories published. | 1924 | moves with his wife back to Leningrad |
| 1925 | "The Poetic Process"; "Psychology and Form" (CS). | ||
| ss | 1927 | Volosinov, Freudianism: A Critical Sketch. | |
| ss | 1928 | Medvedev, Formal Method in Literary Scholarship | |
| ss | 1929 | Problems
of Dostoevsky's Creative Art, 1st ed. Arrested for alleged activity
with underground Russian Orthodox Church. Sentence commuted to six years
internal exile in Kazakhstan. Volosinov, Marxism and the Philosophy of Language |
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| ss | 1930s | Work on novelistic discourse and Rabelais. Writes the essays that will be collected in The Dialogic Imagination. | |
| 1931 | Counter-Statement. | ||
| 1935 | Permanence and Change, 1st ed. | ||
| ss | 1936 | Takes professorship at Mordovia State Teachers College in Saransk. | |
| 1937 | Attitudes Toward History, 1st ed. | ||
| 1941 | The Philosophy of Literary Form | 1941 | Submitted Rabelais and His World as doctoral dissertation to Gorky Institute of World Literature in Moscow. Controversial reception delayed publication. Resigned teaching position during WWII but returned after the war to the now University of Saransk. Said to have used pages of Bildungsroman as cigarette papers during Siege of Leningrad. |
| 1945 | A Grammar of Motives | ||
| 1950 | The Rhetoric of Motives | 1950s | rediscovered by graduate students, fans of Dostoevsky book, who make pilgrimages to Saransk. |
| 1961 | The Rhetoric of Religion: Studies in Logology | ||
| ss | 1963 | Problems in Dostoevsky's Poetics, 2d ed. | |
| 1966 | Language as Symbolic Action | ||
| 1970s | Late essays (The Problem of Speech Genres) | ||
| d. 7 Mar 1975 | |||