The Postclassical Chronotope
A Narratological Inquiry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4376330 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan S Lanser (0009-0007-9384-4147, Brandeis University), Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 429-454 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Poetics Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0333-5372 • E-ISSN: 1527-5507 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/03335372-9780375 |
| OpenAlex | W4295997585 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 24 |
As a thought experiment, this article conjoins the approaches of two theorists with very different worldviews, Mikhail Bakhtin and Gérard Genette, in the hope of generating a model for a "postclassical chronotope" within the framework of a situated narratology. Our exploration begins with a juxtaposition of Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway (1925), confined to one day but structured through the characters' movements in space, with Amor Towles's A Gentleman in Moscow (2016), restricted to a single location but encompassing thirty-two years of time. To enrich the historical and ideological dimensions of the time-space relations, we extend our experiment to three other English-language novels that span two centuries: Jane Austen's Persuasion (1818), Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), and Mohsin Hamid's Exit West (2017). Although the authors' choice of novels was almost arbitrary, the insights the exploration has yielded suggest that the "postclassical chronotope" warrants further research
Aesthetics · Art · Chronotope · Ideology · Linguistics · Literature · Persuasion · Politics · Situated · Sociology · Computer Science · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · History · Law · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy · Spatial and Cultural Studies
Narrative Discourse
Narratology
An Introduction to Narratology
Narrating Space / Spatializing Narrative
Narrative Theory Unbound
The doors would be taken off their hinges”
Narrative Fiction
The practice of everyday life
Bakhtin's Theory of the Literary Chronotope
Of Other Spaces
A Dictionary of Narratology
Towards a Theory of Space in Narrative
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |