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Mikhail Bakhtin and His Theory of Dialogism

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar

Jaswinder Singh

Ph D scholar HSS 16!"#!1$

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* Art and Answerability+1"1", -Author and Hero in Aesthetic Activity+1"#!.#$, The Problem of ontent! Material and "orm in #erbal Art+1"#$ as inArt and Answerability: Early Philosophical Works by M MBakhtin ed/ %ichael Hol0uist and adim 2iapino3, 4ni3ersity of Te5as Press,1""!/

* Problems in the $ork of Dostoevsky+1"#" trans/ y 7aryl 8merson inRethinking Bakhtin: Extensions and Challenges, 9orthwestern 4ni3ersity

Press, 1":"/* Discourse in the %ovel+1";$.;: "rom the Prehistory of %ovelisticDiscourse+1"$!, &'ic and %ovel (Toward a methodology for thestudy of the novel)+1"$1 as in The Dialogic !agination: "o#r Essays byM M Bakhtined/ %ichael Hol0uist, 4ni3ersity of Te5as Press, 1":1/

* -The Problem of *'eech +enres< +1"=1.=# as in $peech %enres and&ther 'ate Essaysed/ %ichael Hol0uist and 7aryl 8merson, 4ni3ersity of

Te5as Press, 1":6/* Problems of Dostoevskys Poeticsed/ and trans/ 7aryl 8merson,

%inneapolis 4ni3ersity Press, 1"6;/* Rabelais and His World, trans/ Helene Iswols&y, Indiana 4ni3ersity Press,

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* >uthoritymonologue 3s/ Dialogue

* Self and the ?ther

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* Social 7onsciousness

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* Idea ne3er finaliAes

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* Ideawordutterance( -intersu)ecti3e territoryrchitectonic

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* Some dialogic tools(

* Irony

* Parody

* Humor

* >llusions

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9o3el as social discourse(

* Discourse of instruction

* 9ot ased on memory or mere imagination* %ulti styled and multi languaged

* 83eryday language

* 7ontemporary life

* ?pen to future

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