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Mikhail BakhtinIn his seminal work, Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics, Bakhtin developed his theory of the polyphonic novel in response to Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. He defines a polyphonic work as one...
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Mikhail BakhtinIn Rabelais and His World, Bakhtin puts forward the concept of Grotesque Realism which is an analysis of language and literature involving the body. This is a continuation of Bakhtin's project of...
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Mikhail BakhtinBakhtin's ideas of dialogism and double voicing are among several aspect of performative pragmatics, and they both aim to explain how the process of speaking, listening, and understanding are...
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Mikhail BakhtinBakhtin treats language as both organic and social. This means, basically, that the meanings we ascribe to language, or the utterances that make up language, are developed through discourse, or...
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Mikhail Bakhtin"Heteroglossia" literally means "other voices" or "different voices." Bakhtin believed that the complexity and diversity of many different voices was overlooked in literary and sociological...
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Mikhail BakhtinBakhtin believed that language should be studied for its dynamic, real life, elements of speech and social relations. He did not think, as some structuralists did, that language is an abstract...
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Mikhail BakhtinThere are a couple of issues going on in this question. It seems to me that the best way to approach it is to take each one singularly and move from there. If we examine "heteroglossia" as the...
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Mikhail BakhtinFor Bakhtin, "language" is made up of the diverse (heteroglossia) utterances of speaking subjects. Bakhtin was interested in the many discourses and dialects of language that reflect the many...
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Mikhail BakhtinBakhtin argued that early Formalist and Structuralist critics did not articulate the "sociological stylistics" of literature. These critics focused too much on the unitary, abstract rules of...
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Mikhail BakhtinForm and content in discourse are one, once we understand that verbal discourse is a social phenomenon--social throughout its entire range and in each and every of its factors, from the sound...
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Mikhail BakhtinBakhtin was concerned with two main aspects of language: linguistics and literary theory. As my answer to your other question suggests, the two were intimately related in his mind. Basically,...
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Mikhail BakhtinThe main thesis of "Discourse in the Novel" is that a novel's complexity lies in the combination of multiple forms, tropes, and references. Thus no novel stands alone, it is rather constructed in a...
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Mikhail BakhtinMikhail Bakhtin is not considered a reader-response theorist. Instead, the most important figures in reader-response theory include Stanley Fish, Wolfgang Iser, and Hans-Robert Jauss. The key...
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Mikhail BakhtinThe term "intertextuality" was developed by French literary critic Julia Kristeva in 1966, appropriately enough in a series of essays that introduced the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, who worked in...
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Mikhail BakhtinBakhtin's thought can be characterized as "unsystematic" for two reasons. First, Bakhtin's work spanned categories. He made major contributions to philosophy, linguistics, semiotics, and literary...
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Mikhail BakhtinBakhtin's ideas around language concern the way that he saw humans as being part of a community and his view that language meant they could never be viewed as being isolated from each other. Note...
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Mikhail BakhtinI tend to think that any discussion of Bakhtin is going to be complex and intricate. In true Bakhtin form, there is little that is simple and direct. Rather, much of his thinking is divergent and...