Bakhtin moves to Rabelais, whose works present an interesting form of the chronotope: To begin with, in physics, they are dealing with chrinotope spatial dimensions and one time dimension, with no particular direction attributed to the latter, while Bakhtin believes that the leading element in the literary chronotope is timep.
Rabelais and His World by Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin,Mikhail Mikha?ilovich Bakhtin,Mikhail Bakhtin Summary
This classic work by the Russian philosopher and literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin (1895–1975) examines popular humor and folk culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. One of the essential texts of a theorist who is rapidly becoming a major reference in contemporary thought, Rabelais and His World is essential reading for anyone interested in problems of language and text and in cultural interpretation.