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Chronotope (Literary Concept of Time-Space) Mikhail Bakhtin


Chronotope Basic Facts:
  • Literary term devised by Russian literary theorist Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (1895-1975), pictured opposite.
  • Refers to coordinates of time & space invoked in a given story or narrative.
  • Considers the setting of a literary work as a spatio-temporal whole.
  • The term is literally translated as - "time-space."
  • A chronotope can be considered both as a cognitive concept & a narrative feature of language.
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Chronotope - Mikhail Bakhtin - Language - Literary Term - Narrative - Russian - Time-Space

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