This essay applies Mikhail Bakhtin’s theories about heteroglossia as developed in “Discourse in the Novel” to John Dos Passos’ The Big Money which is set in the 1920s. In particular, I examine the various mechanisms the author uses to incorporate into his narrative a variety of social languages, each understood as a way of speaking with a more or less coherent set of ideas that establish a perspective on social reality and on how he makes these languages interact in a dynamic way in order to dramatize ideological conflict in the society as a whole.
"The Dynamics of Discursive Struggle in John Dos Passos' The Big Money"
FARRANT, Winifred
2000-01-01
Abstract
This essay applies Mikhail Bakhtin’s theories about heteroglossia as developed in “Discourse in the Novel” to John Dos Passos’ The Big Money which is set in the 1920s. In particular, I examine the various mechanisms the author uses to incorporate into his narrative a variety of social languages, each understood as a way of speaking with a more or less coherent set of ideas that establish a perspective on social reality and on how he makes these languages interact in a dynamic way in order to dramatize ideological conflict in the society as a whole.
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