Poetics of verbal creation: the polyphonic criticism in studies of literary languages

Abstract

This work is based on fundamental concepts explored by the language theorist and literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin, such as dialogism, polyphony, alterity, carnivalization and freedom. Dialoguing with Bakhtin next to his interpreters and thinkers, we intend to establish a polyphonic critique of literary language, which theorizes about incursions in the work of this Russian author through the thought of the discourse of the novelists and their importance in Literature Theory nowadays. Congregating language, literature, anthropology and philosophy, the studies dedicated to Bakhtin understood that the last word has not been said yet. Here, it is preconized that the language of the novel has its origins in the cynicism and dialogic genres of Greco-Roman antiquity, which is extended into the genre of the prosification of the world and remains unfinished at the time of the great culture. This polyphonic system of criticism tries to read ways in literature to build the exercise of independent and responsible literary criticism, such as planed and done in literature and in human life.