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Which two of the following essays form part of Mikhail Bakhtin’s The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays?
A. “From the History of Novelistic Discourse”
B. “Discourse in the Novel”
C. “Romance and Novel”
D. “Forms of Time and the Chronotope in the Novel”
1. A and B only
2. B and C only
3. A and D only
4. B and D only
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Mikhail Bakhtin’s The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (translated by Caryl Emerson & Michael Holquist, 1981) contains exactly four essays:
1. “Epic and Novel”
2. “From the Prehistory of Novelistic Discourse”
3. “Forms of Time and the Chronotope in the Novel”
4. “Discourse in the Novel”
Now compare these with the options:
A. “From the History of Novelistic Discourse”
Bakhtin wrote “From the Prehistory of Novelistic Discourse” (note: Prehistory, not History).
The wording in option A is not the title of any essay in the collection → Incorrect.
B. “Discourse in the Novel”
This is exactly one of the essays in The Dialogic Imagination.
→ Correct.
C. “Romance and Novel”
This is an essay by Northrop Frye, not Bakhtin.
→ Incorrect.
D. “Forms of Time and the Chronotope in the Novel”
This is also one of the four essays included in Bakhtin’s book.
→ Correct.
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