![]() In this sense novelistic discourse undermines absolute or authoritative (monologic) language, which is revealed to be merely one form of ideological expression operating within an essentially intersubjective medium. The novel, unlike other literary forms, embraces heterogeneity in discourse and meaning: it re-creates a reality that is based on the interactions of a variety of subjective consciousnesses and ways of thinking and speaking about the world. ![]() The title refers to the central place of the concept of dialogue in Bakhtin's theory of the novel. According to Holquist, the unifying theme of the essays is "the novel and its relation to language." Holquist and Emerson chose the essays from a collection of six essays by Bakhtin published in Moscow under the title Вопросы литературы и естетиҡи ( Voprosy literatury i estetiki Problems of Literature and Aesthetics). It was edited and translated into English by Michael Holquist and Caryl Emerson, who gave the work its English title. ![]() Bakhtin) is a book on the nature and development of novelistic prose, comprising four essays by the twentieth century Russian philosopher and literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin. ![]() The Dialogic Imagination (full title: The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by M. ![]()
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