在1963年出版的《陀思妥耶夫斯基诗学问题》[1]一书中,巴赫金分析了陀思妥耶夫斯基的小说语言,提出了他著名的复调理论,进一步阐释了他的对话思想。他说,“复调小说整个渗透着对话性。”[1](55)本期刊出三篇文章,分析审美活动中的对话性。互文的嵌入就是一个对话的过程:将一个文本植入另一个文本,形成文本间的对话,不断构建新的文本。在第一篇文章中,袁霞基于巴赫金对话理论,分析加拿大作家艾丽 In his book Dostoevsky’s Poetics [1] published in 1963, Bakhtin analyzed Dostoevsky’s novels’ language and put forward his famous theory of polyphony to further explain His thinking of dialogue. He said: “The polyphonic novels are permeated with dialogue.” [1] (55) This issue contains three articles analyzing the dialogue in aesthetic activities. Intertext embedding is a process of dialogue: one text is embedded in another text, the formation of dialogue between texts, and constantly build new text. In the first article, Yuan Xia based on Bakhtin’s Dialogue Theory, analyzes the Canadian writer Alley