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Record Nr.

UNISA996201659503316

Titolo

Bakhtin's theory of the literary chronotope : reflections, applications, perspectives / / Nele Bemong, Pieter Borghart, Michel De Dobbeleer [and three others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gent, Belgium : , : Academia Press, , 2010

©2010

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (v, 213 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

17.80

Disciplina

801.95092

Soggetti

Criticism

Languages & Literatures

Literature - General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Part I. State of the art --Part II. Philosophical reflections --Part III. The relevance of the chronotope for literary history --Part IV. Chronotopical readings --Part V. Some perspectives for literary theory.

Sommario/riassunto

This edited volume is the first scholarly tome exclusively dedicated to Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of the literary chronotope. This concept, initially developed in the 1930s and used as a frame of reference throughout Bakhtin’s own writings, has been highly influential in literary studies. After an extensive introduction that serves as a ‘state of the art’, the volume is divided into four main parts: Philosophical Reflections, Relevance of the Chronotope for Literary History, Chronotopical Readings and Some Perspectives for Literary Theory. These thematic categories contain contributions by well-established Bakhtin specialists such as Gary Saul Morson and Michael Holquist, as well as a number of essays by scholars who have published on this subject before. Together the papers in this volume explore the implications of Bakhtin’s concept of the chronotope for a variety of theoretical topics such as literary imagination, polysystem theory and literary adaptation; for modern views on literary history ranging from the hellenistic romance to nineteenth-century realism; and for analyses



of well-known novelists and poets as diverse as Milton, Fielding, Dickinson, Dostoevsky, Papadiamandis and DeLillo.