Imaginaţia dialogică şi interpretarea textului medieval
The dialogic imagination and the interpretation of the medieval text

Summary/Abstract: The present paper presents some key features of the postmodernist aproach to the medieval literature, in respect with the principles exposed by the New Criticism wave. The first emphasis is on the importance of the interdisciplinary studies in the context of the revival of medieval literature and the use of some modern critical intruments in order to reshape the past as textual community. In this respect, the concepts exposed by Mihail Bahtin in his works are of major concern in the analysis of medieval literature. Concepts like heteroglossia, dialogic imagination, plurality, multivocalism are connected with the work of Geoffrey Chaucer, a fourteenth century English writer. His major work, The Canterbury Tales, offers a reflection of the turbulent society of his age and is constructed upon a diversity of social voices. This study represents a plea for the reconstruction of the medieval texts in terms of modern critical inquiries.

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