Re: [xmca] Bahktin question

[ERIC.RAMBERG@spps.org]

Thank you Jay, that definitely clarifies.

eric




Jay Lemke <jaylemke@umich.edu>
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Bakhtin's original use of chronotope was somewhat like the modern use 
of "genre", but in a more specific sense. He observed that 
historically there were many narrative literary genres that could be 
considered precursors of the novel, and that each could be defined by 
the ways in which the story line moved characters through time and 
space.

Today I think the meaning retains the original sense that trajectories 
through time and space are important, and that repeating/repeated 
patterns in such trajectories give us a way of talking about activity 
(including discourse) that pays attention to the fact that life is 
lived across places and timescales.

JAY.


Jay Lemke
Professor
Educational Studies
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
www.umich.edu/~jaylemke




On May 4, 2009, at 6:21 PM, ERIC.RAMBERG@spps.org wrote:

> Would it be fair to define the word chronotope as the time and space
> helping to define the meaning of a dialogue?  Late coming to the 
> study of
> this powerhouse.
>
> eric
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