Za i protiv poezije. O opreci poezija/roman, odnosno monološko/dijaloško u književnoteorijskoj misli Mihaila Bahtina
For and against Poetry. The Poetry/Novel Opposition, it is the Monologic/Dialogic in Mikhail Bakhtin's Literary Theory

Summary/Abstract: The mainly neglected aspects of Bakhtin's preoccupation with poetry have contributed to the deep-rooted view that poetry has been eliminated from the consecrated dialogic »society«. In this paper I want to point to those elements of Bakhtin's early theoretical work which have led him to the establishment of his concept of dialogism as well as to the aspects that have prompted him to conceive of poetry as monologic and the novel as the dialogic form of expression and reflexion of the world. We can find the reason for Bakhtin's distinction in his recognition of two positions of the author in the work and his attitude towards the hero. One position enables the author to complete and encircle his/her work and the other which makes it impossible for the author to do that. That is why the monologic/dialogic discrimination in Bakhin's theory should not be interpreted as the superiority of the dialogically structured text to the monologic, above all of the novel to poetry, but rather as a distinction betwen two representative ways how discursive practices can explain the non-discursive ones, the two ways that are equally legitimate and essentially complementary.

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