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Montgomery, Michael Vincent. "Bakhtin's chronotope and the rhetoric of Hollywood film." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/185758.
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This dissertation considers Hollywood film locales rhetorically, as the site of many different kinds of community activities and perspectives. In particular, my focus will be on locales and mise-en-scene elements that replicate certain "chronotopic" patterns of time and space organized by our culture in its literature. These special patterns, along with their signifying functions, were first outlined by Mikhail Bakhtin during the period 1937-1938. As a first step, I begin with a broad survey, outlining the salient features of Bakhtin's individual chronotopes ancient and modern, and considering fundamental connections between these chronotopes and classical Hollywood genres of the 1940s. I devote my second chapter to the exploration of other important theoretical bases of Bakhtin's work; in particular, to the belief in the rejuvenating power of folk language and the carnivalesque. My argument is that the "idyllic chronotope" is given the same position of centrality in Bakhtin's discussions of space and time as carnivalesque speech genres are in his discussions of language. The appearance of an "idyllic interlude" in a work of literature or in a film can suddenly throw the rest of the represented world into moralizing "perspective" just as a carnivalesque insult or quip can "degrade" a high-sounding speech. My third theoretical problem will be the reception and processing of the film text. How does the audience of a film apply their socially-formed schema and knowledge of the characters' "situations" to a film text in order to construct meaning? Here I demonstrate how the "high-lighting" of a film text with recognizable chronotopes can help an audience to form judgments about characters and to construct analogies between character situations and situations arising in their own communities. In my fourth and final chapter, I branch out from Bakhtin's models to consider new chronotopes as they may develop during a particular historical decade. Specifically, I examine the representation of the "shopping mall" as it appears throughout a dozen or so 1980s films in order to show how the spatiotemporal worlds suggested by these films can be "opened out" into a study of teen culture and social mores across the decade as a whole.
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Hohnarth, Alaina. "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." VCU Scholars Compass, 2009. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/13.
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Elmgren, Charlotta. "The Chronotope of Immigration in Jeffrey Eugenides' Middlesex." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-61587.
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Jeffrey Eugenides‟ Middlesex can be ascribed to many genres, one of which is the novel of immigration. Mikhail Bakhtin has suggested that each genre, indeed any literary motif, can be defined by its own chronotope, literally “time space,” “the intrinsic connectedness of temporal and spatial relationships that are artistically expressed in literature.” The essay discusses the chronotope of immigration in Middlesex, and looks at how four specific intersections of time and space, embodied by the four houses inhabited by the Stephanides family, contribute to the unfolding of this particular immigration saga. The four houses can thus be seen to represent the key elements of this novel‟s instance of a chronotope of immigration, which brings up concepts such as assimilation, hybridity and “third space.” The essay also examines the relations of central characters to time, space and each other; the upstairs/downstairs and inside/outside dichotomies within each house providing interesting keys to inter-gender and inter-generational alienation within this chronotope of immigration.
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Collington, Tara Leah. "La corrélation essentielle des rapports spatio-temporels, la validité heuristique du chronotope de Bakhtine." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ63825.pdf.
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Tzimopoulou, Eleni. "Refraction, Heteroglossia and Chronotope in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway : Following Bakhtin’s View of the Novel as Centrifugal Force." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Engelska, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-27363.
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Beck, Christoph. "Chronotopos Ostdeutschland aus der Sicht westdeutscher Autoren : vergleichende Roman-Analyse zu einem Motiv bei Jan Böttcher und Andreas Maier." Master's thesis, Universität Potsdam, 2010. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2011/5241/.
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Bislang konzentrierten sich die Untersuchungen des westdeutschen Blicks auf Ostdeutschland auf den Zeitraum vor der Wende oder auf Rundfunk- und Fernseh-Medien. Die Gegenwartsliteratur stellt einen weißen Fleck in dieser Frage dar. Anhand des Chronotopos-Konzepts von Michail Bachtin werden in dieser Arbeit daher zeitliche und räumliche Tiefenstrukturen in der Darstellung Ostdeutschlands in den Werken Jan Böttchers und Andreas Maiers herausgearbeitet und mit ihrer Darstellung Westdeutschlands verglichen. Neben grundsätzlichen Unterschieden fallen dabei signifikante Übereinstimmungen auf.
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Newell, Marilee. "The wyvern's tale : a thought experiment in Bakhtinian dual chronotope occupation." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2154.
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The non-fiction introduction to The Wyvern’s Tale: A Thought Experiment in Bakhtinian Dual Chronotope Occupation documents the evolution of the novel, The Wyvern’s Tale, from the ideas that inspired it to its current incarnation as a full-length novel intended for an adult audience. It comprises an explanation of the novel’s main concept, Bakhtinian dual chronotope occupation, as well as an idea-focused account of the creative-writing process. Detailed in the introduction’s theoretical premise is the relationship between Mikhail Bakhtin’s theories of chronotope and the carnivalesque and the ideal of the divided union in Chalcedonian Christology. This relationship revolves around the state of existing in two time-spaces at once. The novel, The Wyvern’s Tale, explores this dual existence imaginatively using the setting of parallel worlds – the every-day world and a fictional world called Wyvern – as well as a protagonist, who functions in the fictional world as a Christ-figure. Particular thematic emphasis is placed on differing perceptions of truth and reality, and on the transformative power of costumes. The novel’s outcome, dependent on the reader’s decision as to whether dual chronotope occupation is possible or impossible, is respectively either hopeful or tragic. It attempts to reflect the outcome of the life and death of Christ depending on whether his co-existence as God and man was real or imagined.
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Tourchon, Patrick. "Joseph Conrad et Borneo, 1895-1920 : chronotopes bornéens dans l'oeuvre de J. Conrad." Lyon 2, 2004. http://theses.univ-lyon2.fr/documents/lyon2/2004/tourchon_p.
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Les critiques conradiens font souvent peu de cas de la topographie. De Robert Lee à John Stape, nombre d'érudits nient la pertinence des références géographiques au nom d'un allégorisme, d'un symbolisme ou d'un psychologisme plus ou moins explicite. Le point de départ de cette thèse est de remettre en question ces présupposés et d'accepter la possiblilité pour l'espace et le temps, en tant que ce sont aussi des catégories littéraires, d'être essentiels dans les romans et les nouvelles de Conrad. Dès que Conrad se réinsère ainsi dans l'espace-temps, le concept bakhtinien de chronotope devient applicable. Ce qui veut dire qu'un appareil théorique complexe et riche devient disponible. Car non seulement le chronotope réunit le temps et l'espace, mais il implique de plus une interrogation sur l'émergence du sujet, tout comme il amène à examiner les différentes voix qu'un texte donne à entendre pour une polyphonie potentielle. Le concept bakhtinien, pourvu qu'il se soutienne d'une sémiotique peircéenne et s'enrichisse de développements plus récents opérés par Lacan, couvre donc aussi bien la narratologie que la pragmatique, l'analyse que la rhétorique. Or, Joseph Conrad est un auteur si "chronotopique" qu'une typologie de ses oeuvres peut se foncer sur la localisation précise de ses décors narratifs. Parmi ces décors, Bornéo se distingue comme le lieu que Conrad n'a jamais vraiment quitté : de son premier roman (Almayer's Folly, 1895) à son avant-dernier (du moins publié) (The Rescue, 1920), il ne cesse de revisiter l'île. Une approche bakhtinienne ne pouvait donc qu'éclairer un tel signifiant insistant, et ainsi éclairer aussi les procédés créatifs de ConradConradian critics often take no account of topography. From Robert Lee to John Stape, many scholars hold geographical references as irrelevant, shifting the emphasis on alleged allegorical, symbolic or psychological aspects. The starting point of this thesis is to question such assumptions and to accept the possiblility for space and time, inasmuch as they are literary categories as well, to be essential in Conrad's novels and short stories. Once Conrad is re-inserted into space-time, the Bakhtinian concept of chronotope becomes applicable. Which means that a rich, complex theoretical appartus becomes available. For chronotopes not only merge space and time, they also imply questions about the subject's emergence, as they lead to study the various voices that can be heard in a text to form a potential polyphony. The Bakhtinina concept, provided it is backed up by a Peircean semiotics and enriched by Lacan's more recent developments, thus encompasses narratology as well as pragmatics, psychoanalysis as well as rhetoric. Now, Joseph Conrad proves so "chronotopic" a writer that a typology of his work can be based on a thorough location of his stories setting. Among these settings, Borneo stands out as the place Conrad never really left : from his first novel (Almayer's Folly, 1895) to the penultimate (published) one (The Rescue, 1920), he pays persistent visits to the island. A Bakhtinian approach could but shed light on such a recurring signifier, and therefore on Conrad's creativity
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McAllister, Brian J. "“To Know Where I Have Got To”: The Postmodern Chronotope in Beckett’s Malone Dies and Coetzee’s Foe." Scholar Commons, 2008. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/388.
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This study addresses two works of fiction--Samuel Beckett's Malone Dies and J. M. Coetzee's Foe--and is separated into two chapters. The first chapter analyzes the indeterminate nature of postmodern space within the two novels as related to M. M. Bakhtin's idea of the chronotope found in his work The Dialogic Imagination. The second chapter addresses the self-reflexive creation of this postmodern space within each novel's hypodiegetic narratives and discussions of narrative creation within each respective diegetic narratives.
In each novel, characters as authors create or discuss "inner" narratives that reflect upon the way chronotopes are created in fiction and reveal problematic aspects of those chronotopes. This narrative creation produces what I call a "postmodern creative chronotope" that self-reflexively embraces indeterminacy at the same time that it critiques the elements that produce this indefinite relationship between time and space, a strategy that is especially postmodern. I contextualize the discussion by introducing theories of postmodernism, specifically those of Jean-François Lyotard and Linda Hutcheon. Lyotard's claim that postmodernism resists totalizing structures and Hutcheon's contention that it engages in a simultaneous complicity and critique inform the relationships between time and space in both Beckett's and Coetzee's text.
Additionally, theories of postmodern space contribute to the more specific discussion of the postmodern chronotopes in both novels. Spatial theorists like Edward Soja and Henri Lefebvre, among others, have attempted to reassert issues of space in what has been an ontological and epistemological framework that has prioritized time. Their reassertion of spatiality reconnects the two halves of the spatio-temporal framework of the chronotope in narrative. Beckett and Coetzee employ similar indeterminate and self-reflexive chronotopal strategies in their novels. Coetzee, however, inserts a number of global/political issues into his self-reflexive discussion of chronotopal creation and definition.
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Brasebin, Jenny. "Road novel, road movie : approche intermédiale du récit de la route." Thesis, Paris 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA030088.
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Apparu au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale avec la publication en 1957 d’On the Road de Jack Kerouac et la sortie, 12 ans plus tard, d’Easy Rider de Dennis Hopper, le road novel et le road movie constituent à nos yeux les deux versants de ce que nous avons choisi de nommer le récit de la route. Devant l’absence de réelle étude conjointe entre les deux formes et la persistance d’amalgames, nous souhaitons mettre en évidence ce qui permettrait de distinguer le road novel et le road movie d’autres récits d’errance. Un tel travail nécessite la mise au jour d’un outil d’analyse intermédial permettant d’embrasser de concert des oeuvres relevant d’expressions médiatiques différentes. Nous proposons donc de recourir au concept de chronotope développé par Bakhtine en littérature, et dont il a été démontré il y a peu qu’il est aussi susceptible de s’appliquer à un objet cinématographique. Nous posons que road novel et road movie reposent sur la combinaison d’un ensemble de chronotopes fondamentaux : celui de la route, dans le contexte de la motorisation et des non-lieux de la postmodernité, et celui du seuil, compris comme l’expression du tournant d’une vie. La présence d’une dimension parodique nous amène en outre à mobiliser un autre concept bakhtinien : celui de carnavalesque, qui s’articulerait justement autour des chronotopes de la route et du seuil définis précédemment. Afin de procéder à cette analyse chronotopique, nous nous appuyons sur un corpus d’oeuvres empruntées au répertoire américain, québécois et allemand, en raison notamment des multiples passerelles susceptibles d’être érigées entre ces différentes culturesAppearing in the wake of World War II, with the publication in 1957 of On the Road by Jack Kerouac,followed 12 years later with the screening of Denis Hopper’s Easy Rider, the road novel and road movie constitute, we argue, two sides of what we call the road narrative. Faced with a lack of comprehensive studies embracing both sides concurrently, and with recurrent amalgams, we reflect on the components differentiating the road novel and road movie from other types of wandering stories. Such a project calls for the construction of an intermedial apparatus, enabling us to jointly encompass artworks belonging to different media formats. Consequently, we build on the concept of the chronotope, as developed by Bakhtin as a tool for literarycriticism, and recently extended by scholars to cinematographic objects. We show how road novels and roadmovies emerge from the combination of two fundamental chronotopes: that of the road, exemplified by a postmodern universe dominated by motor vehicles and non-places, and that of the threshold, understood as the expression of a critical turn in one’s life. The noted presence of a parodic dimension in road narrativescalls for the introduction of an additional bakhtinian concept: the carnivalesque, which, as we show, can be articulated in relation to the previously defined road and threshold chronotopes. For this chronotopical analysis, we selected artworks from the American, Quebecois and German repertoires, a choice justified by the numerous potential connections to be established between those three different cultures
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Lilja, Lars. "Att normaliseras - vårdares syn på psykiatriska patienter : Mot en djupare förståelse av vårdares attityd till sina patienter." Doctoral thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Institutionen för hälsovetenskap, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-44.
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I samband med industrialismens framväxt inrättades institutioner i större skala. Den ökade mängden omhändertagna på institution vid 1800‐talets slut kan förklaras med fler medicinskt diagnostiserade, en ökad utstötning, lägre tolerans för avvikande beteende, läkarintresse för ett nytt revir, låg utskrivningsfrekvens och hospitaliseringseffekter. Antalet vårdplatser inom den psykiatriska vården minskade under 1900‐talets sista hälft. År 1992 tillsatte regeringen den så kallade psykiatriutredningen som slog fast att personer med kronisk psykiatrisk sjukdom utgjorde en grupp i samhället som karaktäriserades av allvarligt handikappade personer som berövats sina medborgerliga rättigheter och som hade få resurser till sitt förfogande. Psykiatrireformens intentioner genomsyras av bland annat begreppen normalisering och autonomi. De psykiskt funktionshindrades levnadsvillkor skall normaliseras för att öka deras möjligheter att leva som andra, vilket betyder att de ska delta i besluten om sin egen vård och behandling. Avhandlingen har sin grund i ett hermeneutiskt perspektiv, det vill säga att människor aldrig kan förstå något helt fördomsfritt eller förutsättningslöst. Förförståelse kan förstås som en form av föraning/förkänsla och första idé om det sökta fenomenet, vilket leder förståelsen i en viss riktning. Perspektivets innebörd är att ingen förståelse kan växa fram förutsättningslöst, dvs. växa fram utan någon på förhand given inställning från forskarens sida. Studiens övergripande syfte är att belysa vårdares attityd till personer med psykiska symtom. Avhandlingen består av fyra delarbeten med såväl kvantitativ som kvalitativ design. Data har insamlats med hjälp av frågeformulär, skattningsskalor samt narrativa intervjuer. Resultatet i delstudie I visar att fyra typologier som upptäckts i en tidigare kvalitativ intervjustudie existerade (god, ond, tokig och osynlig). Delstudie II visar att vårdarnas syn på inneliggande deprimerade patienter i hög grad bestäms av diagnosen. Syftet med delstudie III var att klargöra om patientens och vårdarens bild av patientens historia, nutid och framtid överensstämde med varandra. Resultatet visar på en tydlig skillnad mellan parterna. I delstudie IV var syftet att belysa före detta patienters upplevelser av att vara inlagda på en psykiatrisk avdelning. Studien visar att de tidigare patienternas upplevelser mestadels var negativa och att de kan tolkas som om det under sin sjukhusvistelse varit utsatta för ett subtilt förtryck. För att förstå vårdarnas syn på den drabbade personen kommer resultatet i studien att tolkas utifrån en teoretisk referensram inspirerad av den franske filosofen Michael Foucaults och den ryske filosofen Mikhail Bakhtins texter. Tolkningen visar att vårdarna har en tendens att undvika “annanhet” (otherness) och därigenom se patienten enbart som en karaktär, en typologi. Härigenom kommer patienten att placeras i ett ”ingenmansland”, i en kontext där han/hon inte tillhör vårdargemenskapen samtidigt som kontakten med den gamla privata gemenskapen upphör. Genom att se patienten som ett enskilt fall undviker vårdarna att se det lidande som finns i ”rummet” och därigenom blir det ”rum” som skapas till en ”isvärld” som inte är livsbejakande och därför ohälsosam för patienten. Att förändra vårdarnas attityder är en långvarig samhällelig process som kräver inte bara resurser i form av utbildning och handledning utan kanske främst utrymme för kontinuerlig diskussion och debatt. Grunden för förändringen finns redan idag i psykiatrireformens ideala normaliseringsbegrepp. Kravet är dock att politiker och tjänstemän inom vård och omsorg börjar leva upp till lagens intentioner. Detta kräver dock att synen på en person med psykisk sjukdom psykiskt handikapp måste ändras på samma sätt som till exempel synen på homosexuella ändrats från att de varit marginaliserade och levt i ett utanförskap, till att bli sedda som fullvärdiga samhällsmedborgare. För att bryta det strukturella maktmönstret behövs en total samhällelig attitydförändring. Endast en politisk förändring är inte tillräcklig.
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Lindgren, Fanny. "Upp och ned, hit och dit : En romananalys av Haruki Murakamis Fågeln som vrider upp världen utifrån Michail Bachtins kronotopteori." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-66699.
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In this essay Murakami Haruki’s novel The Wind Up Bird Chronicle was analysed from the perspective of Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of the chronotope. The aim was to explore the concept of time and space as presented in the novel. In particular, the analysis focused on how Bakhtin’s chronotopes can be applied to The Wind Up Bird Chronicle, how the chronotopes can enhance our understanding of the novel, and finally how the chronotope theory can be applied to the concept of ‘magic realism’ that is often used to describe Murakami’s authorship. Four chronotopes, presented by Bachtin, were selected and applied to the novel: every-day life, the road, crisis and the castle. The concept of the chronotope allows analysis of how time and space work together in literature and how they form patterns of correlation in the sujet. Results showed that the four chronotopes were found in the novel, and that they also interacted with each other. The chronotope of everyday-life was apparent throughout the novel, and the narrator was under its control. The narrator also seemed to create every-day life out of the chronotopes of the road and crisis by re-living the crises in the road. These three chronotopes seemed inseparable in The Wind Up Bird Chronicle. Finally, the fourth chronotope, the castle, illustrated how a concrete room in the novel, a house, became a part of time and space through a character who, by his presence, gave the impression of slowing down time. When this character disappeared, time made its way through space, making the chronotope of the castle visible. The essay concludes that the chronotope theory was a relevant way to analyse The Wind Up Chronicle as it provided a concept of how time and space appeared together in a novel where time and space is always present. The analysis helped creating a way of understanding the patterns in the novel, which were not always clear, thereby also increasing the understanding of The Wind Up Bird Chronicle.
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Noorani, Yaseen. "Estrangement and Selfhood in the Classical Concept of Waṭan." BRILL ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/621297.
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The modern Arabic term for national homeland, waṭan, derives its sense from the related yet semantically different usage of this term in classical Arabic, particularly in classical Arabic poetry. In modern usage, waṭan refers to a politically defined, visually memorialized territory whose expanse is cognized abstractly rather than through personal experience. The modern waṭan is the geopolitical locus of national identity. The classical notion of waṭan, however, is rarely given much geographical content, although it usually designates a relatively localized area on the scale of a neighborhood, town, or village. More important than geographical content is the subjective meaning of the waṭan, in the sense of its essential place in the psyche of an individual. The waṭan (also mawṭin, awṭān), both in poetry and other types of classical writing, is strongly associated with the childhood/youth and primary love attachments of the speaker. This sense of waṭan is thus temporally defined as much as spatially, and as such can be seen as an archetypal instance of the Bakhtinian chronotope, one intrinsically associated with nostalgia and estrangement. The waṭan, as the site of the classical self’s former plenitude, is by definition lost or transfigured and unrecoverable, becoming an attachment that must be relinquished for the sake of virtue and glory. This paper argues that the bivalency of the classical waṭan chronotope, recoverable through analysis of poetic and literary texts, allows us to understand the space and time of the self in classical Arabic literature and how this self differs from that presupposed by modern ideals of patriotism.
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Apelgren, Rikard. "En dröm i Lagarnas hus : Ögonblicket, människan och det transcendenta. Studier i Stig Dagermans diktning." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för litteraturvetenskap och idéhistoria, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-27777.
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The main aim of the dissertation is to examine the importance of the moment in relation to human experience and to the narrative in the writings of Stig Dagerman (1923-1954), primarily the novels Ormen (The Snake, 1945), De dömdas ö (The Island of the Doomed, 1946), Bränt barn (A Burnt Child, 1948), Bröllopsbesvär (Wedding Worries, 1949), the short stories "Den hängdes träd" (The Hanging Tree, 1945) and "De röda vagnarna" (The Red Wagons, 1946). The dissertation shows the moment as being of crucial importance by serving as the point of time for the fictional character’s critical experience. The moment also functions as a structuring principle for the narrative. In this, the discussion is supported by the theories on the chronotope found in the work of Mikhail Bakhtin. With the ideas of Michael Riffaterre as the principal theoretical basis in the study, the reading of the texts focuses on a matrix common to the works discussed. The reading goes from a description of the primarily profane subject matter of the narrative to an understanding of the religious discourse in the works. This interpretation receives additional support in the theories on religious and mystical experiences found in Rudolf Otto. Finally, the dissertation focuses on man’s sensitivity to, and longing for, a transcendental entity or a God in the broadest sense – a longing which manifests itself in different ways in these texts and is set against the human predicament of being. Man’s desperate religious longing for a transcendental entity or a God are ultimately understood as the significance or principle of unity in the texts under discussion.
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Jaireth, Subhash, and Subhash Jaireth@ga gov au. "Theatre of the times of Socrates, Lunin and Nero : Time and space in Edvard Radzinskiis trilogy Theatre of the Times ." The Australian National University. Faculty of Arts, 1996. http://thesis.anu.edu.au./public/adt-ANU20091027.093131.
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Between 1969 and 1980 Edvard Radzinskii wrote three historico-political plays which were later published as a trilogy entitled Theatre of the Times
. This thesis attempts to unravel the nature of time in the trilogy and invokes Mikhail Bakhtins notion about the forms of time and the chronotope in literary narratives to do that. Bakhtinian concept of the chronotope provides a suitable strategy for reading a trilogy that aims to re-present real time, place and human beings. The concept also provides a vantage point from where the trilogy can be read both from within the time-space of its main protagonists and from that of its author, readers, performers and spectators.
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Both Dialogues with Socrates' and 'Lunin
are structured around the chronotope of the prison which is associated with the chronotope of the acropolis in Dialogues with Socrates and with the chronotope of the masked-ball in Lunin
. In Theatre of the Times of Nero and Seneca the circus-theatre functions as the main chronotope. All these chronotopes serve as plot-constitutive devices and provide appropriate space in which the lives and times of the main protagonists can be adequately re-presented. However, the use of the concept of the chronotope in reading the trilogy does not imply that it can be read meaningfully only from within the time-space of its protagonists. The trilogy reconstructs the historical time-space but also engages in a substantial way with contemporary Soviet reality. This is achieved through an interaction between literary and real chronotopes. There is little doubt that most Soviet readers, performers and spectators negotiatied the chronotopes of the prison and the circus-theatre and the motifs of show-trial and execution from within their own time-space, their own historical experience. The thesis discusses a large number of reviews published in Soviet media to show that most critics read the trilogy from within the discourses about positive hero and socialist realism, because of which Socrates and Lunin were also turned into positive heroes.
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One of the most intriguing aspect of the three plays is the play within a play structure which achieves its maximum potential in the final play of the trilogy where it is combined with the theme of metamorphoses and multiple role playing. The trilogy, like Pirandellos trilogy about theatre, is able to foreground its own theatricality and explore the role of theatricality and role playing in and outside theatre. In Theatre of the Times of Nero and Seneca the boundary between role playing in life and in theatre becomes so blurred that history begins to resemble the writing and staging of a play.
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Apart from exploring the nature of theatricality, the trilogy also questions the conventions of its genre. The three plays do not follow the conventional framing devices employed by dramatic texts and foreground the presence of a mediating narrator. This novelisation, is more evident in Lunin
in which the frequent use of verbs in the past tense in the extra-dialogic text can be linked to the presence of a mediating narrator.
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Jackson, Sarah E. "Becoming Human Through Multicultural and Anthropomorphic Children's Literature: A Case Study of Dramatic Read-Alouds with Preschoolers." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1597880934614368.
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Böhler, Salete Maria Chiamulera. "Estudo da expressividade musical dialógica no rudepoema de Heitor Villa-Lobos." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/149027.
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Este estudo da expressividade pesquisa a interpretação musical como uma construção dialógica, diálogo entre “duas consciências” próprias do dialogismo bakhtiniano. O expressivo em música como vivência dialógica considera o tempo, o espaço e o sentido de cada intérprete em uma posição cambiável de valor, expressão e vontade do autor pessoa ao autor criador como também autor contemplador da obra de arte. Este tempo/espaço, cronotopo, termo primeiramente usado por Bakhtin no estudo da obra de arte literária é aqui considerado como um cronotopo musical: tempo, espaço e sentido do intérprete em um diálogo com o Grande Tempo, a composição e seu contexto universal; demonstrando como o eu dialógico interage com o eu/eu e o eu/outro em uma atitude responsiva. Na composição Rudepoema está presente uma dialogia musical entre o compositor Villa-Lobos, “O Rabelais Brasileiro” e o pianista Arthur Rubinstein, a quem a obra foi dedicada. Os elementos musicais do Rudepoema foram analisados com títulos simbólicos como cronotopos Brasil, Carnaval, Arthur e da Teresa, com adjetivos sugestivos nos cronotopos da alegria, espontaneidade, virilidade e sensualidade; assim como as questões da colocação do pedal, inserção das fermatas, considerando-se ainda aspectos da recursão no processo da composição e suas implicações semânticas na expressividade da obra.This study on expressiveness researches musical interpretation as a dialogic construction, as a dialogue between the two types of consciousness presented in Bakhtin’s dialogism. In music, the ‘expressive’ as a dialogical experience considers time, space and the meaning of each performer in a interchangeable position of value, expression and will from the author as a person to the author as a creator as well as the author as on observer of the work of art. This time / space, chronotope, a term first used by Bakhtin in the study of literary art pieces is considered here as a musical chronotope: time, space and meaning of the interpreter in a dialogue with the Great Time, the composition and its universal context; demonstrating how the dialogic “I” interacts with the I / I and I / others in a responsive attitude. In the ‘Rudepoema’ musical composition there is the presence of musical dialogism between the composer Villa-Lobos, "The Brazilian Rabelais" and pianist Arthur Rubinstein, to whom the work was dedicated. The musical elements of the ‘Rudepoema’ were analyzed with symbolic titles as chronotopes Brazil, Carnival, Arthur and Teresa, with suggestive adjectives in the chronotopes of joy, spontaneity, virility and sensuality; as well as issues concerning pedal placement and fermatas insertion, considering also aspects of the recursion in the processes of composition and their semantic implications in the expressiveness of the work of art.
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Snyman, Amé. "Die karnavaleske as sosiale kommentaar : 'n ondersoek na geselekteerde werke van Steven Cohen / A. Snyman." Thesis, North-West University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/9204.
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This dissertation presents an investigation into two so-called live art works – Ugly girl at the rugby (1998) and Chandelier (2001-2002) – by the contemporary South African artist Steven Cohen (1962-). These works are explored with reference to the manner in which Cohen (as self-declared queer Jewish freak) uses performance art as a form of activism in order to expose practices of marginalisation and suppression (oppression) of non-normative or so-called deviant subject positions in terms of gender, race and ethnicity. The analysis of artworks is guided by the discourse of the carnavalesque and performative conceptualisations of gender with particular emphasis on Cohen’s use of drag as contemporary form of masquerade in order to propose an alternative subject position. The argument is as follows: that Cohen, by setting up an extreme alternative to normative identity constructs, manages to destabilise existing hierarchies that are structured according to binaries as these exist in spaces (such as a rugby stadium and a squatter camp) in the South African context. This destabilising of binary hierarchies gives rise to the argument that the symbolically encoded nature of spaces known for associations of suppression, exclusion and marginalisation are wrought open so that alternative meanings can come into being by activating these spaces as multifaceted and chronotopic constructs. The conclusion is that Cohen contributes profoundly towards the destabilisation of identities and in this way also helps to propose invigorating and fresh views of gender, race and ethnicity in a contemporary South African situation.Thesis (MA (History of Art))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2013.
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Williams, Sally Tatham Robertson. "Between a rock and hard place : space, gender and hierarchy in British gangland film." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/5555.
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A principal aim of this research has been to establish the capacity of British Gangland film to articulate its era of production through the cinematic interpretation of contemporary concerns and anxieties in narratives relating to the criminal underworld. In order to do so, the study has concentrated on the analysis of space, gender and hierarchy within representative generic texts produced between 1945 and the present. The thesis is divided into three sections: the first offers a general overview of British Gangland film from the 65 years under discussion with the aim of identifying recurring generic patterns and motifs. The second and third sections are more specifically focused, their chapters examining the narrative significance and development of the male and the female protagonist respectively. Within the films under discussion, the relationship between these protagonists and their environment represents a fundamental generic component, resulting in an emphasis on space and place. Space within these narratives is inherently territorial, and thus irrevocably bound up with hierarchies of power. The predominantly urban locations in which the narratives are set represent a twilight world, a demi-monde, which is rarely neutral but dominated by the patriarchal order structuring the notion of ‘Gangland’. Such spaces are therefore inextricably linked with gender, hierarchy, and dynamic power relations. Whilst it would have been possible to explore each of these areas in isolation through specifically relevant theoretical perspectives, their interdependence is central to this study. Consequently, a holistic theoretical approach has facilitated analysis of the symbiotic relationship between the three key elements of space, gender and hierarchy and the processes involved in the generation of meaning: this has resulted in a reading of British Gangland film as cultural artefact, reflecting its circumstances of production.
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Caesar, Cheryl. "Léon Tolstoï, Anne Tyler et la polyphonie littéraire : une étude d'influence." Paris 3, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA030035.
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Créateur de la notion de la polyphonie littéraire, Mikhaïl Bakhtine avait trouvé comme exemplaire les fictions de Dostoïevski. Les romans de Tolstoï lui servaient de contre-exemple, selon lui, monologiques et autoritaires. Cependant, des spécialistes de Bakhtine tels que Gary Saul Morson et Caryl Emerson trouvent chez Tolstoï d'autres expressions de la polyphonie. Cette thèse cherchent à explorer tous les concepts principaux de Bakhtine, le dialogisme, l'hétéroglossia, le carnaval, les chronotopes, l'infinalisabilité, et, en place centrale, la polyphonie, dans le contexte des romans de Tolstoï, principalement Anna Karénine. Ces concepts sont étudiés en tant qu'approches narratives aussi bien que sous la forme de thématisations liées à d'autres idées-clés de Bakhtine: l'altérité, l'externalité et l'exotopie. En même temps, nous analysons l'influence éventuelle de Tolstoï sur l'écrivain américaine Anne Tyler, et l'expression de la polyphonie dans ses oeuvresCreator of the concept of literary polyphony, Makhail Bakhtin chose the fictions of Dostoevsky as its exemplar, citing Tolstoy as his monologic counter-example. However, Bakhtin experts such as Gary Saul Morson and Caryl Emerson argue that Tolstoy's works may reveal another kind of polyphony. This dissertation explores the main ideas of Bakhtin, dialogism, heteroglossia, the carnival, chronotopes, unfinalizability and, centrally, polyphony, as they may be found in the novels of Tolstoy, particularly Anna Karenina. The concepts are analyzed as narrative approaches as well as thematizations which may be linked to other pivotal notions of Bakhtin's: otherness (alterity), outsidedness (externality) and other-worldedness (exotopia). At the same time, it examines the possible influence of Tolstoy on the American writer Anne Tyler, through the manifestations of polyphony in her works
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Barnohro, Oussi Broula. "Sentieri e radure : Le forme del cronotopo d'iniziazione in Alessandro Baricco." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Romanska och klassiska institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-135935.
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The purpose of the present dissertation is to study the elaborations of the initiation myth in contemporary Italian author Alessandro Baricco. The theoretical and methodological framework consists mainly of Mircea Eliade’s phenomenological theory of initiation. It is argued that the categories of space and time are interdepent in religious thought and should thus be studied as a unit, through the notion of the chronotope. The dissertation therefore proposes to introduce the concept of the chronotope of initiation as an operative tool, the intersection of the theories of Eliade and Mikhail Bakhtin, for the literary subgenre of the initiation novel. A hermeneutical analysis of the novels Oceano mare, Emmaus and Mr Gwyn demonstrates that the initiation myth is present in all three novels. The symbolism of death and rebirth is coherently enacted as a movement via the categories cosmos-chaos-cosmos, for which the author uses the symbolism of the earth to define cosmos (regularity and structure) and water symbolism for the regenerating chaos (dissolution and renewal). The different chapters of analysis accentuate the interaction of space and time within the different phases of the initiation pattern: the profane, the threshold, the sacred, the centre (the place where the actual ritual is enacted) and the return, which are all defined as chronotopes. The analysis shows that although the chronotope of initiation – the concept intending the fusion of the temporal event of ritual at the spatial centre – assumes different forms throughout the corpus, its function remains unmodified, with its purpose being the creation of ontological change. In its inherent structure, the chronotope of initiation unites antithetical spatial and temporal characteristics. Spatially it unites infinite and dissolving chaotic space with the constitutive envelope or sacred vertical centre, and temporally it brings together the ultimative ontological change at a fixed, historical moment with the eternal, sacred, time opened by ritual, representing the coincidentia oppositorum of the sacred. The analysis also shows that the so-called “portraits of the ineffable”, present in all three novels, reflect the same qualities. As immanent works of art, they function as thresholds into the infinite. From a chronological perspective, the dissertation shows a modification of the initiation pattern in Baricco’s writing: from the classical form in Oceano mare, via a more realistic application in Emmaus, to the most elaborate, meta-literary adaption in Mr Gwyn. Nevertheless, the use of the pattern and its thematic coherence reveals that Baricco consciously elaborates on the pattern to suit the contemporary context.
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Rozītis, Juris. "Displaced Literature : Images of Time and Space in Latvian Novels Depicting the First Years of the Latvian Postwar Exile." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för baltiska språk, finska och tyska, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-607.
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In the years immediately following the Second World War, the main part of Latvian literature was produced by writers living outside Latvia. To this day Latvian literature continues to be written outside Latvia, albeit to a much smaller extent. This study examines those Latvian novels, written outside Latvia after the Second World War, which depict the realities of the early years of exile. The aim of the study is to describe the image of the world of exile as depicted in these novels. Borrowing from Bakhtin's concept of the chronotope, images relating to time and space in these novels are examined in order to discern a mental topography of exile common to all these novels - a chronotope of exile. The novels are read as part of a collective narrative, produced by a particular social group in unordinary historical circumstances. The novels are regarded as this social group’s common perception of its own experience of this historical reality. The early years of exile fall into two distinct periods: first, the period of flight from Latvia and life in and around the Displaced Persons camps of postwar Germany; second, the early years of settling in a new country of residence after emigration from Germany. A model of the perceived world is constructed in order to compare these two periods, as well as their divergence from a standard perception of oneself in the world. This model consists of various time-spaces radiating concentrically out from the individual – ranging from the physically and psychologically near-lying time-spaces of one’s personal and intimate life, through everyday social time-spaces, as well as formal societal time-spaces, to the more distant abstract and conceptual perceptions of one’s place in the universe. Basic human concepts such as home, family, work, intimate relationships, social administration, and most notably the homeland – Latvia – are plotted at various points within these models. Divergences between the models describing the perception of time and space in the two early periods of exile thus become apparent.
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Wetherbee, Benjamin James. "Toward a Rhetoric of Film: Theory and Classroom Praxis." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1313119045.
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Aelbrecht, Patricia. ""Le Grand Voyage": l'expérience, l'expérience racontée et l'économie d'expérience :la croisière hauturière vue au travers de blogs de voyages." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209419.
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Yashkina, Svetlana. "Modern Fairy Tales: The New Existence of an Old Genre : Exemplified by the Books of Alan A. Milne, Tove Jansson and Eno Raud." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för kultur och estetik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-151238.
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The aim of this study is to draw new perspectives to the theoretic approach towards the complex nature of the modern fairy tale genre and its transformation. The study is exemplified by two books by Alan A. Milne about Winnie-the-Pooh (1926-1928), Tove Jansson’s eight books about the Moomintrolls (1945-1970) and Eno Raud’s four books about three funny creatures called “Nakstitrallid” in Estonian (1972-1982). In this thesis, I examine the disputable problem of defining the fairy tale genre in modern literature and refer to the history of the genre and storytelling tradition that have indirectly inspired all three authors in their decision to turn for fairy tale as a genre. Applying the poetical analysis, I argue that these authors contributed to the continuity of fairy tales by creating the link between folkloric heritage, novelistic literary expression and children’s imagination. This study can therefore be considered as topological, however it does not pretend to introduce the complete systematic definition of the genre as the thesis’ format does not allow such in-depth investigation. In the first chapter, ‘Archaic world stimulation in modern fairy tale’, I examine the dominating literary categories that refer to the folk fairy tale intertext: Bakhtin’s concept of ‘chronotope’ – category of time and space, system of fictional allegoric characters and category of fantastic. In the second chapter, ‘Modern fairy tales from perspective of children’s literature’, I analyze the books of Milne, Jansson and Raud in the scope of narratological and aesthetic categories of children’s literature. The folkloric laughter intertextually reproduced by naïvism of the Moomins, the Naksitralls, and Winnie-the-Pooh’s friends, while folkloric collective hero is presented by universal harmony of a happy family and child-like protagonists. I came to the conclusion that poetics of folklore fairy tale still exists in these books through the intertextual dialogue. Modernism as literary method re-evaluates folkloric aspects such as nonlinear time, the blurred boarders between individual and cosmos, material and spirit, text and reality. Every new artistically unique fairy tale world resembles the new stage of the genre development. The more innovative is the story, the more sophisticated can be its poetics.
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Palko, Amy Joyce. "Charting habitus : Stephen King, the author protagonist and the field of literary production." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/1263.
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While most research in King studies focuses on Stephen King’s contribution to the horror genre, this thesis approaches King as a participant in American popular culture, specifically exploring the role the author-protagonist plays in his writing about writing. I have chosen Bourdieu’s theoretical construct of habitus through which to focus my analysis into not only King’s narratives, but also into his non-fiction and paratextual material: forewords, introductions, afterwords, interviews, reviews, articles, editorials and unpublished archival documents. This has facilitated my investigation into the literary field that King participates within, and represents in his fiction, in order to provide insight into his perception of the high/low cultural divide, the autonomous and heteronomous principles of production and the ways in which position-taking within that field might be effected. This approach has resulted in a study that combines the methods of literary analysis and book history; it investigates both the literary construct and the tangible page. King’s part autobiography, part how-to guide, On Writing (2000), illustrates the rewards such an approach yields, by indicating four main ways in which his perception of, and participation in, the literary field manifests: the art/money dialectic, the dangers inherent in producing genre fiction, the representation of art produced according to the heteronomous principle and the relationship between popular culture and the Academy. The texts which form the focus of the case studies in this thesis, The Shining, Misery, The Dark Half, Bag of Bones and Lisey’s Story demonstrate that there exists a dramatisation of King’s habitus at the level of the narrative which is centred on the figure of the author-protagonist. I argue that the actions of the characters Jack Torrance, Paul Sheldon, Thad Beaumont, Mike Noonan and Scott Landon, and the situations they find themselves in, offer an expression of King’s perception of the literary field, an expression which benefits from being situated within the context of his paratextually articulated pronouncements of authorship, publication and cultural production.
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Brenna, Beverley A. "Characters with disabilities in contemporary children's novels: Portraits of three authors in a frame of Canadian texts." Phd thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10048/1110.
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This qualitative study explored influences on three Canadian authors who present characters with disabilities in childrens fiction. Portraits of these authors are framed by a discussion of contemporary Canadian childrens novels, offering curriculum ideas within the framework of critical literacy. The research questions were: What patterns in the depictions of characters with disabilities appear in the context of Canadian novels, published since 1995, for children and young adults? What motivates and informs selected contemporary childrens authors construction of fictional characters with disabilities?
Portraiture was used as a variation on case study research. Methods for data collection and analysis included semi-structured interviews, personal narratives, and content analysis regarding three author portraits, including a self-portrait; content analysis was also applied to fifty childrens novels. Bakhtins conceptualization of the literary chronotope was utilized as a lens to explore aspects of time and space internal and external to these texts, and further delineated by aspects of time, social context, and placethree categories borrowed from the field of narrative inquiry.
Research on classic fiction illuminates particular patterns and trends regarding authors portrayals of characters with disabilities. This dissertation has identified and explored contemporary trends. While disability figured in all of the childrens novels in the study sample, ethnicity was strikingly absent, as were books for junior readers ages eight to eleven. The inquiry utilized Dresangs Radical Change theory to identify the landscape on which books about characters with disabilities reside, supporting the metaphorical conceptualization of the radical changes in childrens literature as a rhizome.
The resonance of what has informed authors, in addition to the exploration of the childrens books in this study, offers perspectives that impact critical literacy classroom approaches delineated within Lewison, Flint, and Van Sluys four dimensions framework: disrupting the commonplace, interrogating multiple viewpoints, focusing on socio-political issues, and taking action and promoting social justice. The latter dimension, while not accomplished through reading the texts themselves, may be approached through attention to author influences. The implications of the study relate to curriculum development as well as promote further research in Education, English Literature, and Disability Studies. An annotated bibliography is included.
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Cresswell, J., and Paul W. Sullivan. "Bakhtin’s chronotope, connotations, & discursive psychology: Towards a richer interpretation of experience." 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/16685.
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YesIn this paper, we draw on the Bakhtinian concept of chronotope to make the theoretical argument that the turn to embodiment can be supplemented through a consideration of connotation in discursive psychology. We use Billig’s conception of linguistic repression as a test-case as to how connotation can supplement discursive analysis, but using our own interview material to do so. From establishing the case that connotation, understood through the lens of chronotope, is potentially of vital interest to discursive psychology, we move to drawing out three implications for this for doing qualitative research differently. First of all, we suggest that researchers need to feel the chronotope of the interview to manage its connotations in vivo. Secondly, we draw attention to the role of the absent other in everyday speech and how this absent other can be analysed differently to a typical discourse analysis - as layering connotations into speech. Finally, we draw attention to the hermeneutic attitude of earnest irony when doing research as a further means of generating as well as managing connotations.
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Sullivan, Paul W., A. Madill, M. Glancy, and P. Allen. "Crossing Chronotopes in the Polyphonic Organisation: Adventures in Experience." 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/7392.
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YesThe ‘Polyphonic Organisation’ is an emerging root-metaphor for the multiple voices that constitute an organisation. In this article, we explore the narrative concept of the ‘chronotope’ as a feature of the ‘polyphonic organisation’. The ‘chronotope’, in a general sense, refers to the matrix of time-space-value in organisations. We argue that the chronotope is important because it introduces boundaries between voices within organisations and helps to explain the difficulties in getting to dialogue with voices in different spaces in the ‘Polyphonic Organisation’. More particularly, there are multiple kinds of chronotopes which lead to different kinds of time-spaces matrices within the polyphonic organisation. Our aim is to examine chronotope crossings within polyphonic organisations as part of the work of being heard. This is a theoretical argument drawing significantly from Bakhtin’s work on chronotope. To examine the argument in practice we draw on original fieldwork within the comedy industry. Here we found three kinds of chronotopes: 1) The comedy-offense boundary; 2) The commissioning landscape 3) Platform spaces. We also found that moving within and between these involved a variety of adventures in experience (such as hope and disappointment), which also have their own specific chronotopes. Overall, we argue that the polyphonic organisation is significantly enhanced as an organisational concept through a turn to the role of chronotope. This is because chronotope helpfully describes the barriers and porous boundaries between voices
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Freeman, Keith D. Jr. ""The River's for Everybody": The River Chronotope and Trauma Healing in Melvin Dixon's Trouble the Water." 2017. http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/english_theses/225.
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This thesis broadly explores river imagery, which undergirds narrative, plot, and character trajectory in Melvin Dixon’s Trouble the Water. In the novel, the Pee Dee River, with its multi-directional flow, reflects the personal journey of the protagonist, Jordan Henry, and figures as a spatialized metaphor by which time and space are organized and articulated. Additionally, this thesis identifies correlations between river imagery and articulations of trauma and trauma recovery in the novel. Ultimately, this thesis argues that via Jordan’s simultaneous geographical and psychological, literal and symbolic journey, the novel offers an African-centered spiritual framework for moving through and healing from trauma.
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Brasebin, Jenny. "Road novel, road movie : approche chronotopique du récit de la route." Thèse, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/10803.
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Apparu au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale avec la publication en 1957 d’On the Road de Jack Kerouac et la sortie, 12 ans plus tard, d’Easy Rider de Dennis Hopper, le road novel et le road movie constituent à nos yeux les deux versants de ce que nous avons choisi de nommer le récit de la route. Devant l’absence de réelle étude conjointe entre les deux formes et la persistance d’amalgames, nous souhaitons mettre en évidence ce qui permettrait de distinguer le road novel et le road movie d’autres récits d’errance. Un tel travail nécessite la mise au jour d’un outil d’analyse intermédial permettant d’embrasser de concert des œuvres relevant d’expressions médiatiques différentes. Nous proposons donc de recourir au concept de chronotope développé par Bakhtine en littérature, et dont il a été démontré il y a peu qu’il est aussi susceptible de s’appliquer à un objet cinématographique. Nous posons que road novel et road movie reposent sur la combinaison d’un ensemble de chronotopes fondamentaux : celui de la route, dans le contexte de la motorisation et des non-lieux de la postmodernité, et celui du seuil, compris comme l’expression du tournant d’une vie. La présence d’une dimension parodique nous amène en outre à mobiliser un autre concept bakhtinien : celui de carnavalesque, qui s’articulerait justement autour des chronotopes de la route et du seuil définis précédemment. Afin de procéder à cette analyse chronotopique, nous nous appuyons sur un corpus d’œuvres empruntées au répertoire américain, québécois et allemand, en raison notamment des multiples passerelles susceptibles d’être érigées entre ces différentes cultures.Appearing in the wake of World War II, with the publication in 1957 of On the Road by Jack Kerouac, followed 12 years later with the screening of Denis Hopper’s Easy Rider, the road novel and road movie constitute, we argue, two sides of what we call the road narrative. Faced with a lack of comprehensive studies embracing both sides concurrently, and with recurrent amalgams, we reflect on the components differentiating the road novel and road movie from other types of wandering stories. Such a project calls for the construction of an intermedial apparatus, enabling us to jointly encompass artworks belonging to different media formats. Consequently, we build on the concept of the chronotope, as developed by Bakhtin as a tool for literary criticism, and recently extended by scholars to cinematographic objects. We show how road novels and road movies emerge from the combination of two fundamental chronotopes: that of the road, exemplified by a postmodern universe dominated by motor vehicles and non-places, and that of the threshold, understood as the expression of a critical turn in one’s life. The noted presence of a parodic dimension in road narratives calls for the introduction of an additional bakhtinian concept: the carnivalesque, which, as we show, can be articulated in relation to the previously defined road and threshold chronotopes. For this chronotopical analysis, we selected artworks from the American, Quebecois and German repertoires, a choice justified by the numerous potential connections to be established between those three different cultures.
Thèse réalisée en cotutelle, sous la direction de M. Philippe Despoix (Université de Montréal) et de M. Michel Marie (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3)
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Van, der Walt Dineke. "Die ontmaskering van diepliggende stemme in sprokies : 'n polifoniese dialoog in Rosemarie Marriott se relaas… / Dineke van der Walt." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/15671.
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In hierdie verhandeling ondersoek ek die wyse waarop die installasiewerke van
Rosemarie Marriott se uitstalling relaas... (2010-2011), soos uitgestal in die
hoofgalery op die Potchefstroomkampus van die Noordwes-Universiteit, deur
aanskouers as 'n narratief gelees en geïnterpreteer kan word. In my lees en
interpretasie van Marriott se werke sluit ek aan by Bal se argument dat kunswerke
as tekste gelees kan word wanneer die kunswerke as narratiewe beskou word. Die
teoretiese grondslag vir so 'n ondersoek is geleë in Bakhtin se argumente met
betrekking tot die interaksie tussen die outeur, protagonis en die leser ten einde vas
te stel hoe Marriott se uitstalling [relaas...] op ʼn Bakhtiniaanse wyse alle lesers in 'n
polifoniese dialoog probeer betrek. Binne die bestek van die studie vorm Bakhtin se
teoretisering van die karnavaleske die utopiese tydruimtelike konteks waarin die
gelykstelling van perspektiewe kan plaasvind. Daarmee saam verduidelik die
Bakhtiniaanse begrip van dialogisme [onder andere] dat narratiewe uit dialoë tussen
medegeregtigde gespreksgenote opgebou moet word. Dialogisme word voorts benut
as die beskrywende konstruk en die ideale ontwerp waarvolgens die outeur die
narratief moet organiseer.
Ek voer aan dat Marriott in haar ontwerp van relaas... op ʼn soortgelyke wyse as die
Bakhtiniaanse karnaval, die wêreld omgekeer voorstel deur die groteske
sameflansing van onsamehangende konsepte en materiaal soos sprokies,
kinderspeelgoed en taksidermie. Soos ʼn sprokieschronotoop het relaas...
antropomorfiese dierekarakters wat interaktief aan die narratief deelneem, klere
aantrek, en selfs kan “praat”. Ten slotte argumenteer ek dat Marriott van ʼn
komplekse maskerspel gebruik maak waarin sy, soos in die Bakhtiniaanse
maskerade, groteske maskers oplê, sodat lesers as deelnemende karakters en as
gevolg van Marriott se ontwerp, diepliggende betekenis in sprokies kan ontmasker.MA (History of Art), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2015