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Article: Meredith and the Novel.(Review)
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- Studies in the Novel
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- December 22, 1998
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ROBERTS, NEIL. Meredith and the Novel (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997). 286pp. $55.00.
George Meredith's novels, with their complex, idiosyncratic, shifting narrative voices, virtually cry out for a Bakhtinian reading. Yet while many recent commentators have employed Bakhtinian concepts in their discussions of Meredith, most have done so only in passing. Even Donald D. Stone's much fuller analysis in "Meredith and Bakhtin: Polyphony and Bildung" (Studies in English Literature 28.4 [Autumn 1988]: 693-712) is, as an essay, necessarily limited in scope. Neil Roberts's book thus offers the first extended application of Bakhtin's theories to Meredith's entire ...