this paper represents an attempt to explore mikhail bakhtin's ideas in the process of interpretation of some selected farsi poems by a few contemporary iranian poets. in so doing, the paper first seeks to cast a rapid glance at bakhtin's era, which shaped his literary philosophical views then it continues with a brief discussion of some of the characteristic features of his ideology, ...

polyphony is a term applied by bakhtin to describe the features of dostoevsky's poetics. according to bakhtin, polyphony is based on dialogism and to respect to the others 'opinion. in this case, polyphony is an achievement that releases human thought of dogmatism. molavi, prior to bakhtin, emphasized on otherness and avoidance of dogmatism and selfdom. polyphony is a twentieth century idiom a...

Arte e ciência, teoria criatividade são, sem dúvida alguma, formas do pensar perceber o mundo, de produzir conhecimento sobre a existência, os seres, as linguagens, vida. O diálogo entre elas, entretanto, nem sempre se dá maneira tranquila. Considerando essa questão, assim como dialógica da linguagem, objetivo deste artigo é apresentar discutir incorporação dessa perspectiva, um seus principais...

i n t ro d u c t i o n Over the past 20 years, so much has been written on genre, so many astute analyses have been undertaken, so many important theoretical observations have been made (see, e., that it is challenging now to say something new that needs to be said, especially in the context of a volume dedicated to genre studies. It has been widely agreed for some time now that genres are not ...

Now actually, I happen to agree with Harre's claims here wholeheartedly. As I shall argue, conversation is a kind of ultimate reality for us. We cannot turn it around to understand its nature in terms of any particular models, theories, rules, or conventions, for, unless we can discuss such entities conversationally, we have no way of justifying to each other that we are indeed applying them ar...

[59] Milman Parry’s work attempted to demonstrate the traditional character of Homeric poetry. Despite a later shift in focus from the concept of “traditional” to “oral” (Finnegan 1991: 120), with at least the implication of a relatively open system as opposed to a relatively closed one, Parry’s early emphasis on tradition was so strong that his theory tended to be read as one discounting, if n...