النظرية و الترجمة : ميخائيل باختين و النقد الأدبي العربي المعاصر

Abstract EN

This paper attempts to understand the role of translation in the transmission and spread of theory outside the cultural field where it was first formulated.

To reveal this role, it takes as an example the social poetics formulated by Russian critic Mikhail Bakhtin starting in the 1920s.

It focuses on the translations of Moroccan critic Mohammed Barada of some of Bakhtin’s texts (published as Novelistic Discourse in 1987).

The paper concludes that Barada’s reception of Bakhtin’s suggestions, particularly the concepts of the dialogic, polyglossia, the carnivalesque, and polyphony, opened up for the Arab novelist-critic opportunities for innovation on the levels of method and practice, so as to emerge from the closed circling of reading.