Polyphonic Theory Of Bakhtin And Dostoevsky's Crime And Punishment

Dialogue theory is the most basic and important concept in the field of literature theory, at the same time it is also an extensive philosophical concept. The polyphonic novel of Bakhtin is infecting dialogue novels. Polyphonic novels are metaphorical images, with the help of the musical terminology"multi-voice parts"he changed it into"multi-sound", and called counterpoints as dialogues.In Bakhtin's opinion, the novels of Dostoevsky are totally different from that of Leo Tolstoy which are kind of dialogue-like polyphonic novels The language of the heroes and the language of the writers have the same value, and heroes don't rely much on the author which is the key feature that separates a polyphonic novel from a dialogue-like novel. Another crucial aspect of polyphonic novel is revealing its formation in the angle of historical poetics and the relation between itself and revelry. The culture of ridicule has long been opposite to the official culture that pushed for distorting the obstacle of trove nature of life. In the view of Bakhtin, if Rabelais's novel was the peak of this Revelry, Dostoevsky's polyphonic novel is another peak in the new time.The paper first gives a brief outline of the Bakhtin's polyphonic novel theory, and then interprets the novel Crime and Punishment microscopically with the purpose of unfolding the original appearance of polyphonic theory and figuring out the internal relationship between this theory and revelry literature. It also focuses on analyzing the theory's influence on the novel and the devil orpiment of literature. The thesis paper discusses the problem in the following aspects. First of all, the philosophical basis and realistic foundation of the theory and the whole summary of dialogue poetic, also includes the historical background the applied course of it. Second, through analyzing the relation between the writer and the main characters, the author makes clearer the relation between dialogue and polyphonic novel. Take"Crime and punishment"as an example which reveals the inevitability of the showing up of the theory. Last but not the least, the paper points out the bias of the understanding of dialogue theory and the misunderstanding of it in China and it sums up the value of it in the fields of esthetics and philosophy.