1. On the monological versus dialogical (or heterological) 'approaches' to the interpretation of texts, see especially Mikhail Bakhtin, Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics, trans. R. W. Rotsel (Ann Arbor, MI: Ardis, 1973) and The Dialogic Imagination, trans. Michael Holquist and Caryl Emerson (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1975). See also, Julia Kristeva, 'Word, Dialogue, and Novel' in Toril Moi (ed.), The Kristeva Reader (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986), pp. 31-61.