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They became like molecules that were always changing, breaking apart all the time, many-faceted words, not just a dead language, a rock breaking apart … Originally performed with scream songs, contrapuntal shouts, and heteroglossic murmurs — far removed and formally inscribed, this outstanding libretto still reads with the distinct verbivocovisual pleasure of anarchic verbal destruction and architectonic musical reconstruction.
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The remainder of the book focuses on Twain's encounter with variety: the shock of foreign languages, the heteroglossic mix of dialects and idiolects along the Mississippi seen in Huckleberry
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I was reminded of As I Lay Dying - of a cognitive dissonance, a deliberately broken, heteroglossic approach to narrative that is much more often associated with modern authors like Joyce and Dos Passos but works remarkably well here.
The Millions 2009
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The single word itself is heteroglossic (or "double-voiced," or
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