This paper analysed The Sound and the Fury with the theory of intertextuality, with the aim of going back tointersubjectivity, as promoted by Mikhail Bakhtin. Drawing insight from Susan Sontag’s opinion on“interpret...
In the early phase of its development, semiotics was understood as "semeiotics" and studied symptoms. Today we propose to recover this ancient dimension of semiotics focussed on health, care and the quality of life, a...
In Bakhtin, dialogism and intercorporeity are closely interconnected by a relation of reciprocal implication: there cannot be dialogue among disembodied minds, nor can dialogism be understood separately from a biosemi...
In translation, hybridity often poses a big challenge to the translator, especially when the hybrid text is a novel. The au-thor of this paper hopes to contribute to the study of the translation of hybridity in Englis...
Russian language and literature theorist Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) is an expert of carnivalized literature. In Rabelais and His Worm (1984) and Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics (1987), Bakhtin has shown how R...
This article explores the potential resources of the Bakhtin's theory of dialogism and its core concepts for the development of the philosophy and methodology of the human sciences. Focusing on Bakhtin's late essays...
As a genius Irish poet and dramatist,Oscar Wilde is one of the most disputable playwrights in the history of English lit erature.Among all his comedies,The Importance of Being Earnest fully shows Wilde's artistic styl...
Paulo Coelho's novels call into question the nature of the literary text and the act of reading in a post-Einsteinian world. Amidst the debate over his popular writings (Albanese; Ndagano), the discussion turns to ...
William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! has aroused general concern and has been well received since its publication. In light of the polyphonic features of the novel, this thesis attempts to adopt Bakhtin's theory of po...