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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Chronotope."”.
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The chronotope of walking in the films of Andrea Arnold
… that the act of walking functions as a dominant chronotope in the work of British filmmaker Andrea Arnold. Using Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept (1988), it demonstrates how walking mobilises a reading of the landscape and the female body that articulates their combined resistance to hegemonic …
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The kala Pani chronotope and feminist historiographic interventions in Indo-Caribbean women’s literature
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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In the Here and Then; Forms of Time, Chronotope and Trauerspiel In Gorboduc and King Lear
<p>In this thesis, forms of time and chronotope in the English Renaissance dramas Gorboduc and King Lear are analyzed. The Tragedie of Gorboduc is discussed as an example of Walter Benjamin's Trauerspiel and as a model of many elements found in Shakespeare's King Lear.</p>
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Flesh and spirit onstage: chronotopes of performance in medieval English theatre
This study uses Mikhail Bakhtin's chronotope, which is the informing principle of one's experience of space and time, to explore different relations among space, time, actors, and audience in medieval theatre. Relations between the material and spiritual worlds as understood in the Middle Ages are …
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Lovecraftian Queerness: Weird and Queer Temporalities in <em>Lovecraft Country</em> and <em>Detransition, Baby</em>
… Drawing on Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of the chronotope of the novel, I develop a theory of the queer chronotope in fiction to align with the queer temporalities that queer characters inhabit. I then analyze queer chronotopes in HBO’s Lovecraft Country, demonstrating where the show fell short …
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Mikhail Bakhtin's Appropriation in the West and a Needed Return to Primary Texts: A Review of Authoritative Criticism and a Return to the Idyllic Chronotope in Jude the Obscure
… Review of Criticism and a Return to the Idyllic Chronotope in Jude the Obscure
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Language and the negotiation of identity and belonging in Harub, Saudi Arabia
… older generation of women using the concept of chronotope. Those born before the change in power narrate a freedom to confinement chronotope while those born after the change in power narrate an ignorant to educated chronotope. Through the telling of these opposing accounts, these two …
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Drawing Water, Drawing Breath, Drawing Thread, A synthesis of clinical and creative practice through space-time
… Bakhtin’s concepts of unfinalisability and chronotope. Bergson’s key writings on space and time (durée) and Lefebvre’s The Production of Space and Rhythmanalysis are reviewed and linked to chronotope, unfinalisability and space-time. ‘Drawing Water’ references work on location where the …
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"A Memorial and a Name": Construction of Public Memory Through Chronotopic Arrangement of Antecedent Genre at Yad Vashem
… two concepts from Rhetorical Genre Studies—the chronotope (Bakhtin) and antecedent genre (Jamieson)—to examine the relationship between genre and the making of public memory. The findings of this analysis point to the importance of the antecedent genre of Holocaust testimony in the construction …
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Writing William Burroughs, performing the archive
… Library. Melding Bakhtin's theories of the chronotope and the grotesque body with creative writing and experimental modes of scholarly production as praxis, I theorize archival research as a uniquely embodied practice. By exploring themes of history, biography, documentation, and discovery, …
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Narrative strategies in the gospel according to Luke : a Bakhtinian exploration
… explored in terms of the Bakhtinian concepts of chronotope, carnival, and intertextuality.
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Consulting the past: a comparison of relations between Abrahamic religions in medieval Spain and its reflection in today’s Israel-Palestine relations
… Al A’ma al-Tutīlī. By comparing the rhizome and chronotope experienced in Medieval Spain with those being experienced in Israel-Palestine, this thesis will continue to add to the discussion of relations between Abrahamic religions.</p>
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Publishing the confidential: an ethnographic study of young Irish bloggers
… space as three interrelated layers within the chronotope of the blog. It also posits the existence of a trialogical relationship between the blogger, the reader and the technology related to the tool and platform. Whilst the young bloggers from both groups all used their blogs as personal …
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Stepping over the threshold of time: The Brezhnev era and the rise of the heritage temporality (1964-1982)
… for the emergence of heritage - and of the ‘chronotope’, a methodological tool facilitating analysis of a given heritage site’s temporal and spatial aspects.
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Gumball Astronauts: Establishing a Space-Time Vocabulary for Genre Bending in Picture Stories
… one that is influenced by Bahktin’s idea of the chronotope, a time-space defining of genre. Focusing on the example of a cowboy’s hat, I pull out implied meanings and understandings of the object to better understand what effect seeing the hat has on the viewer. I also look at the basic mechanics …
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From Villain to Hero: Traces of the Gothic Villain/Hero in Four Modern Films
… the application of Bakhtin's theory of the chronotope, dialogics, and carnival. This definition will be applied to the the films Batman, Darkman, Edward Scissorhands, and Cape Fear.</p><p>In the course of this application, it will be seen that although the villain has evolved into a Gothic …
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The novelty of improvisation: towards a genre of embodied spontaneity
… the application of Bakhtin's concepts of the chronotope, prosaics, polyphony and the carnivalesque, and his overarching schema of the genre as a way of seeing and experiencing the world, the communicative event of improvisation is revealed to be strikingly similar to Bakhtin's preferred model, …
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Madness and narrative understanding: A comparison of two female firsthand narratives of madness in the pre and post enlightenment periods.
… dialogicism, polyphony, unfinalizability and the chronotope that provide the tools for the narrative analysis of two female English writers; Margery Kempe and Mary Barnes. The analysis highlights three critical issues in relation to firsthand narratives of madness. First, the blurred boundaries …
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Ég um mig frá mér til mín. Umfjöllun um birtingarmyndir sjálfsins í sjálfsævisögum Maxine Hong Kingston og Jenny Diski
… kenningu sína á hugtaki Mikhails Bakhtín um „chronotope“ – tengsl tíma og rýmis – en hún telur að þar sé að finna skapandi leið til að lesa sjálfsævisögur. Tímarými í sjálfsævisögum sé að finna í notkun á orðinu „ég“ og „hér og nú“ eða „þar og þá“. Með því að skoða hvernig sögumaður staðsetur …
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