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

Abstract

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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ChronotopicAnalysisBakhtinian

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