Bakhtin on intertextuality

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Bakhtin on intertextuality

• No member of a verbal community can ever find
  words in the language that are neutral, exempt
  from the aspirations and evaluations of the
  other, uninhabited by the others voice. On the
  contrary, he receives the word by the others
  voice and it remains filled with that voice. He
  intervenes in his own context from another
  context, already penetrated by the others
  intentions. His own intention finds a word
  already lived in.
• --Problems of Dostoevskys Poetics, p. 131

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CentrifugalCentripetal

• Every concrete utterance of a speaking subject
  serves as a point where centrifugal as well as
  centripetal forces are brought to bear. The
  processes of centralization and decentralization,
  of unification and disunification, intersect in
  the utterance the utterance not only answers the
  requirements of its own language as an
  individualized embodiment of a speech act, but it
  answers the requirements of heteroglossia as
  well it is in fact an active participant in such
  speech diversity. And this active participation
  of every utterance in living heteroglossia
  determines the linguistic profile and style of
  the utterance to no less a degree than its
  inclusion in any normative-centralizing system of
  a unitary language.
• --Bakhtin Discourse on the novel. p. 272

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Opposing Forces
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Heteroglossia/Multivoiced
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Novel gt Poetry
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Individual as Intersection of Discourses
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Discourse as Creation of Reality (e.g., Freud)
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Dialogism

• No utterance in general can be attributed to the
  speaker exclusively it is the product of the
  interaction of the interlocutors, and broadly
  speaking, the product of the whole complex social
  situation in which it has occurred.
• -- Freudianism A Marxist Critique

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Internal Dialogue
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Speech Genres
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Playfulness/Carnaval