Michael Holquist - Dialogism: Bakhtin and his world

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NEW ACCENTS

General Editor: TERENCE HAWKES

Dialogism

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IN THE SAME SERIES

The Empire Writes Back: Theory and practice in post-colonial literatures Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin

Literature, Politics and Theory: Papers from the Essex Conference 197684 ed. Francis Barker, Peter Hulme, Margaret Iversen, and Diana Loxley

Translation Studies Susan Bassnett

Rewriting English: Cultural politics of gender and class Janet Batsleer, Tony Davies, Rebecca ORourke, and Chris Weedon

Critical Practice Catherine Belsey

Formalism and Marxism Tony Bennett

Dialogue and Difference: English for the nineties ed. Peter Brooker and Peter Humm

Telling Stories: A theoretical analysis of narrative fiction Steven Cohan and Linda M.Shires

Alternative Shakespeares ed. John Drakakis

The Semiotics of Theatre and Drama Keir Elam

Reading Television John Fiske and John Hartley

Literature and Propaganda A.P.Foulkes

Linguistics and the Novel Roger Fowler

The Return of the Reader: Reader-response criticism Elizabeth Freund

Making a Difference: Feminist literary criticism ed. Gayle Green and Coppellia Kahn

Superstructuralism: The philosophy of structuralism and post-structuralism Richard Harland

Structuralism and Semiotics Terence Hawkes

Subculture: The meaning of style Dick Hebdige

Popular Fictions: Essays in Literature and History ed. Peter Humm, Paul Stigant, and Peter Widdowson

The Politics of Postmodernism Linda Hutcheon

Fantasy: The literature of subversion Rosemary Jackson

Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist literary theory Toril Moi

Deconstruction: Theory and practice Christopher Norris

Orality and Literacy: The technologizing of the word Wlater J.Ong

The Unusable Past: Theory and the study of American literature Russell J.Reising

Narrative Fiction: Contemporary poetics Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan

Adult Comics: An introduction Roger Sabin

Criticism in Society Imre Salusinszky

Metafiction: The theory and practice of self-conscious fiction Patricia Waugh

Psychoanalytic Criticism: Theory in practice Elizabeth Wright

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Bakhtin and his world

MICHAEL HOLQUIST

London and New York

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First published1990

byRoutledge

11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2002.

1990Michael Holquist

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Holquist, Michael

Dialogism: Bakhtin and his world.

1. Literature. Theories of Bakhtin, M.

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ISBN 0-203-13100-2 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-33034-X (OEB Format)

ISBN 0-415-01179-5 (Print Edition)

ISBN 0-415-01180-9 pbk

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This book is dedicated to Nicko and Bas

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It is easy to see that we are living in a time of rapid and radical social change. It is much less easy to grasp the fact that such change will inevitably affect the nature of those academic disciplines that both reflect our society and help to shape it.

Yet this is nowhere more apparent than in the central field of what may, in general terms, be called literary studies. Here, among large numbers of students at all levels of education, the erosion of the assumptions and presuppositions that support the literary disciplines in their conventional form has proved fundamental. Modes and categories inherited from the past no longer seem to fit the reality experienced by a new generation.

New Accents is intended as a positive response to the initiative offered by such a situation. Each volume in the series will seek to encourage rather than resist the process of change, to stretch rather than reinforce the boundaries that currently define literature and its academic study.

Some important areas of interest immediately present themselves. In various parts of the world, new methods of analysis have been developed whose conclusions reveal the limitations of Anglo-American outlook we inherit. New concepts of literary forms and modes have been proposed; new notions of the nature of literature itself, and of how it communicates, are current; new views of literatures role in relation to society