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Dialogism and Lyric Self-Fashioning: Bakhtin and the Voices of a Genre - Blevins, Jacob (Editor)
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Using Mikhal Bakhtin's concept of dialogism as a theoretical starting point, this volume investigates the manifestations of competing 'voices' within the tradition of lyric poetry. The lyric subject's understanding of himself/herself - through the very act of speaking/writing - is irrevocably connected, on multiple levels, to the heard and unheard voices of others. No matter how 'private' the voice of the lyric speaker appears to be, nearly every utterance is formed from and then positioned between what others have said or ...

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Dialogism and Lyric Self-Fashioning: Bakhtin and the Voices of a Genre 2008, Susquehanna University Press

ISBN-13: 9781575911205

Hardcover