For Bakhtin, this concept of chronotope which is literally time-space is a matter of defending ‘positive conceptions of Knowledge.’ Based on the notion of history greater emphasis is given to the body as a material reality. According to Bakhtin, it is time that is given priority and is regarded as a synonym with history. The Bakhtinian concept defines time and space as inseparable. The special meaning it has in relativity theory is not important for out purposes we are borrowing it for literary criticism almost as metaphor. This point, however, adds to the universality of his theory in terms of its. Humanitas, 5(10), 435-447 439 at the same time is not justified other than that it is a part of Bakhtin’s oral culture-based vision or a metaphor. 2016 Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 6 (1): 343369 Kristina Wirtz 344 As a result, the concept remains more figurative than analytical. She has attempted to take the audience from the existing …show more content… This term is employed in mathematics, and was introduced as part of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. Critical Analysis of Bakhtin’s Chronotope. Mikhail Bakhtin’s (1981) concept of or time-space, chronotope is increasingly cited, sometimes applied, but only rarely given sustained theoreti- cal attention as part of his dialogical approach (see Mannheim and Tedlock 1995). Austin: University of Texas Press and assume that, if this is true, the rhetorical unity within a specific genre could also be defined by its. Holquist (Ed.), The dialogic imagination: Four essays (pp. Forms of time and of the chronotope in the novel. A chronotope plays a significant role in texts to expose the nature of events and actions and exemplifies the texts relation to their social and political sphere.īakhtin’s belief in the concept of time which creates the illusion that the past always determines the present has been adhered by the renowned playwright Lorraine Hansberry. This paper will examine Bakhtin’s theory that a genre’s unity is defined by its chronotope Bakhtin, M. Time and again, the past is integrated in the current moment of consciousness. In the historical time, the experience of the individual flows on with every new piece of information brought up by history. He called the lived time as- real time, historical time or horizontal time. Chronotope (space-time) bridges plot and narrated events with the real world. Bakhtin who used it as a central element in his theory of meaning in language and literature. The term was taken up by Russian literary scholar M.M. Further, he suggests that there are two forces in language (272): one pulls in and the other pushes out (centripetal and centrifugal). Bakhtin wanted to find a chronotope in different literary genres, which gave characters most freedom and creativity. In literary theory and philosophy of language, the chronotope is how configurations of time and space are represented in language and discourse. Bakhtins ideas about language can best be described by looking at three concepts: chronotope, heteroglossia, and stratification. In Greek ‘chronos’ means time and ‘topos’ means place. Bakhtin's “chronotope” is a narrative time concept underlining that time cannot be understood without a spatial dimension: time and space are interconnected.