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

Yıl 2012, Cilt: 9 Sayı: 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

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• Bakhtin, Mikhail. The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981).
• Bakhtin, Mikhail. Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984).
• David Herbert Lawrence, Women in Love, p.114. Plato, The Republic, 2nd edition [translated by Desmond Lee] (New York: Penguin Books, 1987).
• Lawrence, D.H.. Women in Love (London: Penguin Books Ltd, 1996).
• Smethurst, Paul. The Postmodern Chronotope: Reading Space and Time in Contemporary Fiction (Ams- terdam: Atlanra, Rodopi, 2000).