The chronotope and the generation of meaning in novels and paintings. From: Criticism | Date: March 22, 1994| Author: Best, Janice | COPYRIGHT 1994 Wayne State University Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Mikhail Bakhtin's chronotope theory that space and time are intrinsically connected in novels can also be applied to paintings and, though Bakhtin used the theory for literary history, it also involves literary meaning. Edouard Manet's paintings such as 'Serveuse de Bocks' and 'Un Bar aux Folies-Bergere' as well as Gustave Flaubert's 'L'Education sentimentale' provide examples of chronotopic meaning when analyzed semiotically and structurally. Artistic meaning is created chronotopically by us...