![]() ![]() ![]() He believed this concept to be of particular relevance to the novel as a genre. Bakhtin conceived of the term 'dialogism', the notion that most literary texts were comprised of a hierarchy of disparate voices, and that these voices were in turn influenced by other preceding texts. The ideas of the Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin were also being translated into English around this time. ![]() Kiss of the Spider Woman is Puig's fourth novel, published in 1976, a time when postmodernist theories were first being promulgated. With its experimental structure eclectic intertextual incorporation of other media and predominance of popular forms over aspects of higher culture, Manuel Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman certainly lends itself to a postmodernist interpretation. ![]()
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