Resumen de A Bahktinian Reading of Moon Tiger
For Bakhtin, the novel is essentially parodic; it is itself a parody of other genres as genres, a carnivalesque literary form that exposes and therefore undermines both their formal and their linguistic conventionality, as well as what that seriousness implies: authority, orthodoxy, stasis. Only the novel can do justice to the inherent dialogism of language by means of its dialogic pluralism or, in other words, its orchestration of diverse discourses culled both from writing and oral speech. Following Bakhtin's theory we will try to show how Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively is essentially a carnivalesque and parodic novel in its conception of chronology, history, etc.
