chronotope

Language: English

Mikhail Bakhtin defines the chronotope as the intersection between temporal and spatial relationships, also called ‘time-space’ (Bakhtin 1981: 84).

References:

Bakhtin, Mikhail (1981), ‘Forms of time and of the chronotope in the novel’, in The Dialogic Imagination, Austin: University of Texas Press, pp. 84-258.

Posted by Birgit Beumers on 15 Jan 2008 • Comment on this term