The originality of Bakhtin's fragmentary and partial theory of literary genre is underlined in this article. Bakhtin's reflexion on genre is very different from that of his Formalist contemporaries. Instead of proposing elaborate typologies or generic categories, Bakhtin more often devotes his attention to showing that a meaningful approach to the topic must be diachronic. From an epistemological point of view, the possibility of exact duplication or repetition of the same generic device from text to text is denied. Each text (or reading of a text) is a new performance in which generic material is reworked and represented. There are affinities, therefore, between the positions of Bakhtin and Fredric Jameson (in The Political Unconscious). Generic categories are useful only if they are seen as diagnostic tools which help us to better understand how texts enter into dialogic relations with each other.

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El problema de la otredad manifestado en la obra de la feminista francesa Monique Wittig es aquí analizado mediante la herramienta teórica proporcionada por Bajtín, visto a través de la óptica de Todorov, y mediante la comparación de las aportaciones de los pragmatistas franceses Oswald Ducrot y Francis Jacques con las propuestas de Bajtín sobre las relaciones entre el yo y el otro. El resultado es la sugerencia de la necesidad de una nueva pragmática apta para explicar la novedosa obra de la escritora.

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