Bakthin: from the palimpsest to the hypertext

Abstract

This paper makes an incursion in some of Mikhail Bakhtin's most profitable concepts as dialogism, polyphony, intertextuality and chronotope, frequent in different fields of the epistemological setting. It is discussed how the hypertextual space revitalizes the concept-metaphor of the palimpsest, opening a new shape of extra-intra-intertextuality, and making possible a dialogue between different kinds of texts and textualities (verbal and nonverbal).