TRAVELLING, THE PHENOMENON OF TIME DILATION AND THE ORIGIN OF CHRONOTOPES
TRAVELLING, THE PHENOMENON OF TIME DILATION AND THE ORIGIN OF CHRONOTOPES

Summary/Abstract: The introductory part of the paper is dedicated to a brief description and analysis of the theory of chronotopes in science at the start of the 20th century, with emphasis on Bachtin’s implementation in literary history and theory. The second part focuses on the group of narrative texts, compiled primarily from the folklore tradition of world literature, which contain the motif of time dilation – particular disturbances in the physical and biological passage of time, caused by the contact of two fundamentally opposed chronotopes, thanks to the spatial relocation of the protagonist, i.e. situations in which the protagonist experiences the “chronotopic” transformation by crossing/travelling from one world/chronotope into another.

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