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Visions of the Other and Free Indirect Speech in Artistic Discourse: Bakhtin, Pasolini, and Deleuze

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The relation between one’s own vision of the world and that of others finds expression in different types of reported speech—direct, indirect, and free indirect. Interplay between one’s own word and another’s word is strongest in free indirect discourse where internal dialogism of the word is particularly evident. The question of internal dialogism is a central concern among members of the Bakhtin Circle. It corresponds to what Bakhtin understands by “dialogue” wherewith it assumes a completely different meaning from what is commonly understood by this term. External dialogue among rejoinders is one thing, that is, dialogue as a literary genre, while dialogue in the Bakhtinian sense, that is, dialogue internal to the same utterance, is another. The work of Deleuze, Pasolini, and Bakhtin can be associated on a theoretical level precisely through their reflections on the problem of free indirect discourse.

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Ponzio, A., Petrilli, S. (2015). Visions of the Other and Free Indirect Speech in Artistic Discourse: Bakhtin, Pasolini, and Deleuze. In: Trifonas, P. (eds) International Handbook of Semiotics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9404-6_6

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