Studia Litterarum

The essay bears on Mikhail Bakhtin’s idea of chronotope as “the gate” to “the sphere  The essay bears on Mikhail Bakhtin’s idea of chronotope as “the gate” to “the sphere  of meanings.” Without this methodological tool, it would be difficult to understand a   national literature that is archetypal at its core. Fiction of the indigenous peoples of the   North  — Mansi, Khanty, Nenets, Evens, Evenks, Yukaghirs, Nivkhs, Chukchi, Nanais,   etc.  — is unique due to its specific chronotope that makes it strikingly different from the   Russian literature that had nurtured the former. Systematic approach allows reveal the   specificity of fictional time and space and the specific ways chronotope functions in the   prosaic works of the North. The chronotopic aspect of the Northern fiction draws from   the peculiar understanding of art and life and the national worldview of the Northern   author. Most of the fictional characters are subject to the laws of their “own” space and   measure everything with the measure of nature and race. Owing to this fact, the analysis   of fictional time and space helps us understand the “obscure” characters that represent   the national consciousness and trace hitherto unstudied chronotope formations of the   Northern literature such as: chronotope of the nomad, chronotope of man and woman,   chronotope of the road, chronotope of the fishery and hunting, chronotope of the elderly   person, etc. The essay eventually demonstrates that mythology forms the basis of the   literatures of small ethnic groups.

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