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edoccha_9958059689402883
Format:
1 online resource (v, 213 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Content:
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.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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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.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9038215630
Language:
English
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