Mikhail Bakhtin presented "dialogism" and "polyphony" as remarkable components of modern literary novels. Since then, many literary critics including Kristeva and Genette began to expand, and offer a variety of presentations and configurations of these notions. Today, we can consider "intertextuality" as a common ground between the different interpretations of the theories of Bakhtine, Kristeva and Genette. Also, we can represent an inherent and holistic explanation of the concepts of "dialogism" and "polyphony" in a literary text. In contemporary Persian literature, the works of Simin Daneshvar is envisaged among the few literary creations that contain dialogism and its corollaries. Hence, in this paper, first, we aim to offer a detailed explanation of what dialogism is, and second, we will try to show how we can consider Daneshvar's Wandering Island as a dialogic literary text.
SALIMIKOUCHI, E., & Sokoutjahromi, F. (2012). Dialogism and Polyphony in Simin Daneshvar's Wandering Island. Research in Contemporary World Literature, 17(2), 77-91. doi: 10.22059/jor.2012.50885
MLA
Ebrahim SALIMIKOUCHI; Fatemeh Sokoutjahromi. "Dialogism and Polyphony in Simin Daneshvar's Wandering Island", Research in Contemporary World Literature, 17, 2, 2012, 77-91. doi: 10.22059/jor.2012.50885
HARVARD
SALIMIKOUCHI, E., Sokoutjahromi, F. (2012). 'Dialogism and Polyphony in Simin Daneshvar's Wandering Island', Research in Contemporary World Literature, 17(2), pp. 77-91. doi: 10.22059/jor.2012.50885
VANCOUVER
SALIMIKOUCHI, E., Sokoutjahromi, F. Dialogism and Polyphony in Simin Daneshvar's Wandering Island. Research in Contemporary World Literature, 2012; 17(2): 77-91. doi: 10.22059/jor.2012.50885
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