the dialogic imagination four essays by mm bakhtin

Indeed, the utterance arises out of this dialogue as a continuation of it and as a rejoinder to it-it does not approach the object from the sidelines” (Baxtin 1981).

The living utterance, having taken meaning and shape at a particular historical moment in a socially specific environment, cannot fail to brush up against thousands of living dialogic threads, woven by socio-ideological consciousness around the given object of the utterance it cannot fail to become an active participant in social dialogue. “Directed toward its object, a word enters a dialogically agitated and tense environment of alien words, evaluations and accents, is woven into their complex interrelationships, merges with some, recoils from others, intersects with yet a third group: and all this may in an essential manner shape the word, may leave a trace in all its semantic layers, may complicate its expression and influence its entire stylistic profile. 1934/35 essay “Slovo v romane,” translated as “Discourse in the Novel”: 1929 study of Dostoevskij, the locus classicus of his understanding of dialogism is found in his Baxtin, Mixail (Bakhtin, Mikhail) ( 1981). Although Baxtin first used the words dialogizm and dialogičnost’ (literally “dialogicality” or “dialogical quality”) in his Baxtin, Mixail ( 2000). 2005), with the work of the Russian thinker Baxtin and the Baxtin Circle. Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory. Routledge Encyclopaedia of Narrative Theory.

Dialogism is overwhelmingly associated in accounts of literary theory in general, and of narratology in particular (e.g.

The dialogic imagination four essays by mm bakhtin