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Although Western academic circles have become familiar with
intellectual work of Mikhail Bakhtin only a decade after his passing, its
influence is impossible to underestimate. However, not only have his
theories and concepts reached the Western academic thought indirectly
via proxies of the likes of Julia Kristeva and Tzvetan Todorov, but they
have also not been rigorously scrutinized for consistency and objectivity.
Following postmodern nihilistic rebellion against the language itself by
Jacques Derrida and the like, perceived as an instrument of hegemonic
structures, it falls to current academicians to reevaluate modern thought,
extract concise terms, concepts and categories to reconstitute
contemporary unambiguous tools for research. It is in pursuit of such
consistency that current research provides critical analysis of Bakhtin’s
concept of chronotope exposing several logical inconsistencies and
contradictions in its definition, constituents, origins and application, while
recognizing its strength as going far beyond the scope of literary analysis
and retaining applicability to written, theatric and cinematic traditions.
Besides addressing the concept of chronotope as such, the necessity of
specific distinct types of idyll is also questioned, suggesting that such
could have been broken down to their more basic and more universal
elements not bound to the folkloristic culture, but to the very human
nature and events experienced universally regardless of literary or oral
tradition.
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