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Re: multi-vocal; Bakhtin; MPD in 19th century
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Stephen Blackwell quickly answered my question about Bakhtin ( " I'm afraid I can't say much about how this question might relate to Bakhtin's notions of multi-voicedness or polyphonicity--it has been too long since I reviewed them(...)"
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What I had in mind was a comment which I understood to imply that Nabokov's was the only voice present in his novels and which has been puzzling me ever since.
I may have misunderstood it completely ( and to ask for any extensive explanation about Bakhtin, polyphonic novels and "voices" at this list would be completely misdirected.)
The comment was " As Pekka Tammi convincingly argued in his "Problems of Nabokov's Poetics" (Helsinki, 1985, 97-101) Nabokov's narrative, in terms of Bakhtinian metaphors, should be defined as anti-polyphonic: "We may talk of a pronouncedly anti-polyphonic feature in the author's writing: an overriding tendency to make explicit the presence of a
creative consciousness behind every fictive construction." (100) Alexander Dolinin ( posted: 25 de set de 2004 - 21:44)
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Thanks!
What I had in mind was a comment which I understood to imply that Nabokov's was the only voice present in his novels and which has been puzzling me ever since.
I may have misunderstood it completely ( and to ask for any extensive explanation about Bakhtin, polyphonic novels and "voices" at this list would be completely misdirected.)
The comment was " As Pekka Tammi convincingly argued in his "Problems of Nabokov's Poetics" (Helsinki, 1985, 97-101) Nabokov's narrative, in terms of Bakhtinian metaphors, should be defined as anti-polyphonic: "We may talk of a pronouncedly anti-polyphonic feature in the author's writing: an overriding tendency to make explicit the presence of a
creative consciousness behind every fictive construction." (100) Alexander Dolinin ( posted: 25 de set de 2004 - 21:44)
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