The essay 'Discourse in the Novel' argues that the novel is constituted by a multiplicity of social voices. Who wrote it?
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Correct answer: B. Mikhail Bakhtin
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Bakhtin's 'Discourse in the Novel' (1934–35; The Dialogic Imagination) defines the novel by heteroglossia — the orchestration of many social languages and voices.
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