Re-defining Plurality of Autonomous,Unmerged Voices and Consciousnesses in Bakhtin’s Theory of the Novel

Abstract

Historical investigation of novel changes over the ages. It demands observations from different dimensions, confronting one another and sometimes presenting opposite views provided by additional studies. Considering literary analysis about the emergence, structure, component, or features of novels somewhat has diffused the discussion. This paper reviewed the comprehensive theory of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin regarding the novel, the most celebrated discourse of books. The world merges into an open-ended, multi-voiced, dialogic reality as a novel gives way to distributing entirely incompatible parts among different perspectives of equal importance. Bakhtin opposes monologic speech and acknowledges dialogic speech, which determines social relations where the speaker is embedded. The dialogic discourse offers a radical liberalization of both the self and the concept of culture. The present paper traced the implied dialogism or the social relations within the framework of culture and subculture. Thus language which functions in a novel is not “symptomatic” of “persons,” but persons are the bearer of the language, with the “specific set of social and ideological valuations” that entails in a novel.

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Heteroglossia polyphony dialogism novel Dostoevsky

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