A Chronotopic Analysis: Bakhtinian Review of Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence

Year 2012, Volume: 9 Issue: 2, 365 - 372, 01.04.2012

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A Chronotopic Analysis: Bakhtinian Review of Women in Love by D. H. Lawrance

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In this paper the aim is to interpret the Bakhtinian elements in terms of chronotopes and analyze Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence. Bakhtin in his work Dialogic Imagination opens a new path for analyzing the texts through which the comprehension of analysis is extended. He introduces the term “chronotope” that can enable the reader to understand a text, an event, a character or a philosophy. He has given no specific explanation to the term; rather it is left blank for the reader. However, he names the theory as follows: “We will give the name chronotope to intrinsic connectedness of temporal and spatial relationships that are artistically expressed.

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Chronotopic, Analysis, Bakhtinian

References

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• David Herbert Lawrence, Women in Love, p.114. Plato, The Republic, 2nd edition [translated by Desmond Lee] (New York: Penguin Books, 1987).
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