Heteroglossia
Author: Jessica Ginocchio What is Heteroglossia? The simplest definition of heteroglossia (raznorechiye) in Bakhtin’s “Discourse in the Novel” is “the social diversity of speech types” (263). What does this mean? In the early sections of this essay, Bakhtin explains the unique quality of artistic prose, particularly when it takes the form of a novel: The novel as a whole is a phenomenon multiform in style and variform and speech and… Read More »Heteroglossia
