Time and Imagination: Chronotopes in Western Narrative Culture
(Part of the Rethinking Theory Series)
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Bart Keunen's boldly comprehensive theory of literature springs from the synthesis between narrative time and space forms called the chronotope (from the Greek chronos "time" and topos "place"). The originator of the theory, Mikhail Bakhtin, argued that each literary culture and each genre uses a family of chronotopes that endow the cultures and genres with their specific aesthetic charm, as well as their cognitive and moral strength. After...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0810127644
ISBN13:9780810127647
Release Date:September 2011
Publisher:Northwestern University Press
Length:168 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"
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