ABSTRACT
In western Europe, initial interest in Bakhtin’s work is owed primarily to Julia Kristeva’s famous 1969 essay, “Word, Dialogue, and Novel,” in which she engages his theory of dialogism (see below) in order to develop her theory of intertextuality. Kristeva also wrote the introduction to the French translation of Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics, published in 1970.
