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polyphony

is a form of writing that establishes a new relation between author and hero. It is also a theory of ethics 'because it treats people as truly unfinalizable.

polyphony 'a form of writing (i.e. a theory of the creative process) that establishes a new relation between author and hero'. it is also a theory of ethics 'because it treats people as truly unfinalizable'. doestoevsky found a way to 'write about free people who are really represented as free'. . . by relinquishing the author's control over the character, allowing the character to surprise the author, (perhaps like playing chess against oneself). Bakhtin is 'hostile to all instatiation models (Saussurean, formalist, structuralist..-- which understand particular acts (parole) as mere instantiations of timeless norms (langue)' (J.hop). Equally hostile to relativism. . . 'polyphony has nothing to do with relativism. . . [B]oth relativism and dogmatism equally exclude all. . . dialogue by making it either unnecessary. . . or impossible. . . (69')

polyphony, n.Definitions

polyphony