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Mikhail Bakhtin's central argument in "Discourse in the Novel" is that novels are inherently dialogic, meaning they are composed of multiple voices and perspectives. This multiplicity of voices...

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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 Bakhtin

Mikhail Bakhtin viewed language as inherently dialogic, emphasizing its social interaction and the multiplicity of voices within texts. He believed that meaning is created through dialogue and the...

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Mikhail Bakhtin

In 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 Bakhtin

Bakhtin 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 Bakhtin

The 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 Bakhtin

Bakhtin believed that Saussure's approach to language was too narrow. Saussure, he said, looked at the word as if it were a self-sufficient whole, while Bakhtin argued that we should look at the...

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Mikhail Bakhtin

Bakhtin distinguishes the novel from the epic by arguing that the novel is a developing genre whereas the epic is completed and antiquated. To some extent, this is because the novel is still a...

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Mikhail Bakhtin

There 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"...

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