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Mikhail Bakhtin

“Other genres are constituted by a set of formal features for fixing language that pre-exist any specific utterance within the genre. Language, in other words, is assimilated to form. The novel by contrast seeks to shape its form to languages; it has a completely different relationship to languages from other genres since it constantly experiments with new shapes in order to display the variety and immediacy of speech diversity.”

Mikhail Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays
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The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (University of Texas Press Slavic Series Book 1) The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays by Mikhail Bakhtin
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