Space (Place, Location) and Time (the narrative) are connected by a Knot. Currently we use the term Content or Media for Literature. Later I also read many other books and articles like “ The dialogical imagination”, “ Towards a philosophy of the act”, “ Discourse in the Novel”, “ Rabelais and His World”, “ Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics” and “ Speech Genres and Other Late Essays”.īahktin invented the term Chronotope, “ The place where the knots of narrative are tied” or “ the intrinsic connectedness of temporal and spatial relationships that are artistically expressed in literature“. The discovery of Bahktin started with a book about Bahktin by Saul Morson & Caryl Emerson. He used Bahktin in one of the many versions of his never published book Grammars of Engagement. Such an adaptation of the chronotope concept can be further linked to methodological tendencies within current interpretation theory, genology, and literary historiography.The work of Bakhtin was disclosed to me by Will McWhinney. The distinction between the thematological and genological aspects of the construction of fictional worlds can be clarified by linking them respectively to the concept of action schemata and to that of textual superstructures. The development of Bakhtin's writings shows that genre distinctions are to be considered a fundamental instrument for literary communication and that this instrument is to be understood as working implicitly by means of mnemonic associations made by text producers and readers. These schemata can be seen to operate on two levels: The level of textual motifs (the thematological dimension of texts) and that of fictional world models (the genological dimension). Bakhtin's concept can be used to study the way in which literary communication functions through what the psychologist Frederic Bartlett first called memory schemata. In this article, a methodological grounding in schema theory is proposed.
Moreover, the epistemological implications of his genology have not yet been fully realized. Bakhtin is widely taken to be a pioneer of genological thinking, but one of his key concepts - the chronotope - is still subject to highly divergent interpretations. In his article, "Bakhtin, Genre Formation, and the Cognitive Turn: Chronotopes as Memory Schemata," Bart Keunen proposes a new reading of Bakhtin's notion of the chronotope.
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