Bakhtin’s Dialogism In The Big Sleep
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SummaryMikhail Bakhtin is a philosopher and theorist who defies easy categorization. He has been associated with Marxist Literary critics, Russian Formalists and structuralists. While he has elements in common with all three, he also differs greatly from them in fundamental ways. His works and theories have become almost a category unto themselves, and their influence stretch across many disciplines and subjects. His most influential ideas in the area of literature concern the novel.
Bakhtin reconceived the way the novel is analyzed. Rejecting traditional stylistics based on poetry, he conceived the novel as the intersection of various strata within a language. The novel, according to Bakhtin, best represented how language in society actually worked; meaning is relative, provisional and situational, individual speech is influenced by what has been said before and what will come after.
Bakhtin reconceived the way the novel is analyzed. Rejecting traditional stylistics based on poetry, he conceived the novel as the intersection of various strata within a language. The novel, according to Bakhtin, best represented how language in society actually worked; meaning is relative, provisional and situational, individual speech is influenced by what has been said before and what will come after.
Table of Contents- Bakhtin reconceived the way the novel is analyzed.
- Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin was born in 1895 in Orel.
- Bakhtin's theories about literature place him somewhat in a category all his own.
- Heteroglossia represents the 'centrifugal' forces at work within a language.
- Bakhtin's treatment of the word is a direct repudiation of traditional stylistics.
- This stress placed by Bakhtin upon the social context.
- This desire to be one's own boss reflects an urge within society.
- A linguistic stratum that has a more realistic feel when used by Marlowe is that of the criminal underworld.
- Upon encountering Bakhtin, it was thought that here at last was a literary theory based around the novel.
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