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Re: [xmca] Bahktin question




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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