(Re-)Novelizing Poetry: A Bakhtinian Perspective on Parenthesis

Günther Lampert; Martina Lampert

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21289174

August 15, 2026Open Access

(Re-)Novelizing Poetry: A Bakhtinian Perspective on Parenthesis

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To examine how parenthesis acts as a communicative mechanism for the re-novelization of poetry by restoring polyphonic, multi-voiced discourse within poetic structures.
Applied Mikhail Bakhtin's literary theories of dialogism, polyphony, and novelization to textual poetic analysis.
Analyzed parenthetical constructions across three diverse English poems: Wilfred Owen's The Letter, William Shakespeare's Sonnet 126, and E. E. Cummings' l(a.
Parenthesis serves as a primary textual mechanism for mapping multi-voiced polyphony onto the linear structure of poetic language.
Parenthetical insertions represent the author's alternative voice, transforming monophonic verse into dynamic living discourse across historical and modern poetic forms.

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Theoretical analysis reveals how parenthesis introduces polyphony and dialogic voice into English poetry, highlighting its role in restoring multi-voiced discourse.

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