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Mikhail Bakhtin

5 November 1895-7 March 1975

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The Chronotope is a formally constitutive category of literature, wherein time, as it were, thickens, takes on flesh, becomes artistically visible... likewise, space becomes charged and responsive to the movements of time, plot and history.

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The Chronotope is greek for 'time space' and refers to the intrinsic connectedness of temporal and spatial relationships that are artistically expressed in literature.

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Chronotope is concerned with the way authors play with the ration of space and time, making time stand still, perhaps, or using space itself to measure the flow of time as the plot progresses.

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The Chronotope is the relationship between space and time in imagination as these two dimensions enter into a kind of dialogue in consciousness.

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Eating is, at the simplest biological level, taking food into the body, and thereby taking in the world.

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Exhibiting is a method of throwing to the fore things which the author himself doesn't understand.

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Heteroglossia is the notion that all utterances are functions of a matrix of forces practically impossible to recoup, and therefore impossible to resolve.

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Heteroglossia is that locus where centripetal and centrifugal forcescollide. As such, it is that which a systematic linguistics must always suppress.

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Heteroglossia is the inherent diversity in unofficial forms. If heteroglossia is a state, polyglossia as an event.

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Ideology is any system of ideas that serves as the basis for arriving at a shared understanding (be it scientific or philosophical).

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A Narrative is an object that offers the richest ground for exploring the nature of both the chronotopic unconscious and the human experience of temporality.

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Polyphony is a form of writing that establishes a new relation between author and hero. It is also a theory of ethics 'because it treats people as truly unfinalizable.