Contents -- Introduction -- "The Locus for the Other": Cixous, Bakhtin, and Women's Writing -- The Historical Poetics of Excrement: Yeats's Crazy Jane and the Irish Bishops -- ideological becoming: mikhail bakhtin, feminine écriture, and julia kristeva -- Voicing Another Nature -- Monstrous Dialogues: Erotic Discourse and the Dialogic Constitution of the Subject in Frankenstein -- Desire and Temptation: Dialogism and the Carnivalesque in Category Romances -- Is Bakhtin a Feminist or Just Another Dead White Male? A Celebration of Possibilities in Manuel Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman -- The Ideological Intervention of Ambiguities in the Marriage Plot: Who Fails Marianne in Austen's Sense and Sensibility? -- The Chronotope of the Asylum: Jane Eyre, Feminism, and Bakhtinian Theory -- On veult responce avoir: Pernette du Guillet's Dialogic Poetics -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.