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Volume : I, Issue : IV, May - 2011

Mikhail Bakhtin’s Dialogism and Intertextuality: A Perspective

Panchappa R. Waghmare

Published By : Laxmi Book Publication

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The upsurge of current literary theory has become something of significant phenomenon in contemporary literature, emerging as formidable force in interdisciplinary subjects. Dialogic criticism proposed by Mikhail Bakhtin is one of the new perspectives to study literary work. To Bakhtin, text is not a self contained organism and the language represented in text is not alien entity, instead a site for dialogic interaction of multiple voices or modes of discourse. This research paper briefly attempts to introduce dialogic criticism and its theoretical concepts like polyphony, heteroglossia and their relation to literary work. It also concentrates on the theory of dialogism in relation to the notion of intertexuality in contemporary critical theory. The revival and reinterpretation of Bakhtin has become a part of the contemporary critical trend. Mikhail Bakhtin’s Dialogic Criticism concentrates on plurality of text and plurality of independent unmerged voices. He stood against Russian Formalists views that text as independent and impersonal linguistic or cultural force. To Bakhtin, text is not merely a verbal but a social phenomenon. The literary work, according to Bakhtin, is the product of manifold determinants that are a specific to a class, social group and speech community.

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Panchappa R. Waghmare, (2011). Mikhail Bakhtin’s Dialogism and Intertextuality: A Perspective. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. I, Issue. IV, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/161.pdf

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  4. Morson, Gary Saul and Caryl Emerson, Mikhail Bakhtin : Creation of a Prosaic, Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1990.

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