multivocal

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The novel’s multivocal structure gives each narrator equal weight; the collective theme that no one can ever know what another person is thinking or experiencing comes at the price of never seeing the whole truth.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2022

The splintered, multivocal, interactive flow of social media feels inimical to the single, sustained voice of the novelist, intoning for page after page, unretweetable and impervious to our DMs.

From Slate • Feb. 9, 2021

Despite the rush of drama indicated by Gunaratne’s title, “his strengths are in the quieter details — of personal stories, nuanced characterizations and especially in his multivocal breadth of register,” our reviewer, Jon McGregor, writes.

From New York Times • Jan. 3, 2019

The humor associated with black language play—with jokers like Pryor and Bernie Mac—directly descends from this multivocal tradition, and from the trouble that made it necessary.

From The New Yorker • May 8, 2017

A useful instance to illustrate the importance of distinct, and the mischief of equivocal or multivocal, terms.

From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson