In this work, Bakhtin introduces his ideas of dialogism, which is his approach to intertextuality and the property of a work existing in a constant dialogue with its context. The digital is uniquely gifted in this fashion, as it can operationalize these rules and reveal their capacities and limitations. It does this the same way that the novel does, by revealing the structure and patterns of the other genres and media. The digital too is young and immature, and like the novel it has the capacity to incorporate, extend, and parody other media. There are many powerful analogies that can be made between Bakhtin’s study of the novel and digital media. Bakhtin nonetheless saw the novel as new and unique among genres, because of its capacity to incorporate material from other genres, and reformulate and parody them. This is despite being written in the 1930s, when we would normally think of the novel as being much more stable. The book describes the novel as a new genre, one that is relatively new and immature. The Dialogic Imagination is Mikhail Bakhtin’s examination of the novel. Procedural abstraction and representation.
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