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.
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