From Heteroglossia to Worldmaking: Fictions of Robert Burns and Iain (M.) Banks

Abstract

The article compares Burns'' Tam O''Shanter and Love and Liberty and Ian Banks''s sci-fi and non-sci-fi novels using Bakhtin''s "heteroglossia" and Goodman''s theory of "woldmaking".

Keywords

• Heteroglossia
• Worldmaking
• Fictions
• Robert
• Burns
• Iain
• Banks