A Chronotopic Analysis: Bakhtinian Review of Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence

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In this paper the aim is to interpret the Bakhtinian elements in terms of chronotopes and analyze Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence. Bakhtin in his work Dialogic Imagination opens a new path for analyzing the texts through which the comprehension of analysis is extended. He introduces the term “chronotope” that can enable the reader to understand a text, an event, a character or a philosophy. He has given no specific explanation to the term; rather it is left blank for the reader. However, he names the theory as follows: “We will give the name chronotope to intrinsic connectedness of temporal and spatial relationships that are artistically expressed.