TY - BOOK ID - 145148802 TI - Bakhtin's theory of the literary chronotope : reflections, applications, perspectives AU - Demoen, Kristoffel AU - Borghart, Pieter AU - Bemong, Nele AU - De Dobbeleer, Michel. AU - De Temmerman, Koen AU - Keunen, Bart AU - Bakhtin's Theory of the Literary Chronotope : Reflections, Applications, Perspectives PY - 2010 PB - Gent, Belgium : Academia Press, DB - UniCat KW - Criticism. KW - Languages & Literatures KW - Literature - General KW - Chronotopes KW - Bakhtin, M. M. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:145148802 AB - 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. ER -