Time and Imagination: Chronotopes in Western Narrative Culture

by Bart Keunen

Bart Keunen's boldly comprehensive theory of literature springs from the synthesis between narrative time and space forms called the chronotope (from the Greek chronos "time" and topos "place"). The originator of the theory, Mikhail Bakhtin, argued that each literary culture and each genre uses a family of chronotopes that endow the cultures and genres with their specific aesthetic charm, as well as their cognitive and moral strength.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810127644
• ISBN13: 9780810127647
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"