Chronotope and Metaphor as Ways of Time-Space Contextual Blending: the Principle of Relativity in Literature
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Literary Style, Chronotope, MetaphorResumen
This paper is an attempt to apply the holistic notion of chronotope suggested by Bakhtin to investigating literary style as a gestalt phenomenon. Style is a complex pattern of mutually reciprocal elements, and Bakhtin’s chronotope was the first in literary analysis to link at least two elements – time and space – as complementary, i.e., as combined to enhance and emphasize each other qualities. The suggested analysis is a tool for deepening our understanding of Vladimir Nabokov’s protagonists’ actions via the time-space matrices they are acting in. The cognitive analytical instruments of analysis are the closely related holistic notions of chronotope and conceptual metaphor.
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Ljuba Tarvi, Helsinki University
researcher who studies the style of the bilingual writer Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977). She got her first MA degree in English philology in her native Russia, then her second MA and PhD in comparative literature in Finland. Tarvi has lectured at Novosibirsk University (Russia), Tallinn University (Estonia) and Helsinki University (Finland). The quantitative Token Equivalence Methodelaborated in her PhD Comparative Translation Assessment: Quantifying Quality(2004) is based on a detailed filing of certain linguistic features followed by generalizations and triangulation with the findings by other methods.The TEM has been used in computer linguistics and in studying such complex phenomena as metaphor and style.
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