chronotope

plural chronotopes

1. The representation, in language, of a particular time and space.

   Carver's work, considered as a totality, constitutes what Bakhtin calls a chronotope, “a formally constitutive category of literature...[within which] spatial and temporal indicators are fused into one carefully thought—out, concrete whole.

   2004, G. P. Lainsbury, The Carver Chronotope: Inside the Life-world of Raymond Carver's Fiction, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 8

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   […] but the methodology also requires that postmodern literary chronotopes are related to a historical development of the novel (itself a kind of chronotope), to representational chronotopes in other art forms, and to the practical chronotopes that […]

   2000, Paul Smethurst, The Postmodern Chronotope: Reading Space and Time in Contemporary Fiction, Rodopi, →ISBN, page 65