THE EVOLUTION OF BAKHTIN’S THEORY FROM DOSTOEVSKY TO CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
Abstract
This study involves applying the theory of polyphony from Mikhail Bakhtin to the contemporary modern and postmodern narrative. Polyphony, a concept derived from Bakhtin's analysis of Dostoevsky’s novels, is the state in literature where a piece of text is not mainly under its creator’s domination but that multiple equally higher orders or diegesis drive it. The collection charts the emergence of this concept in different literary traditions and instates its dialogic, ethical, and cultural implications. Through a qualitative analysis, the paper accompanied the process of polyphony’s transformation in modern English and Uzbek prose where it continues to be a necessary means for literary democracy, ethical understanding and cultural heterogeneity.
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