The Dialogic Imagination

The Dialogic Imagination Questions and Answers

What does it mean when Bakhtin describes discourse as stratified?

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What does Bakhtin have to say about medieval parody in The Dialogic Imagination? Could you give some reference to the text?

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How does Bakhtin identify the novel as a social phenomenon?

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How did the dialogization in parody prepare the ground for the modern novel?

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"Parody... paved the way for a new literary and linguistic consciousness." Discuss this statement of Bakhtin.

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