The Analysis of the Chronotope of Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place

Abstract

The term chronotope was first used by the Russian philologist and literary philosopher M.M. Bakhtin. The term itself can be literally translated as “time-space.” It was developed in Bakhtin’s essay “Формы времени и хронотопа в романе”. M.M.Bakhtin characterises the term chronotope as follows: “In the fictional chronotope we find a fusion of spatial and temporal tokens into a contemplated and particular whole. Time becomes thick, dense and fictionally visible; space intensifies, gets involved into the movement of time, plot, history. The features of time become apparent in space, and space is comprehended and measured within time. The fiction chronotope is characterised by this intersection of rows and fusion of tokens”. We take M.M. Bakhtin’s theory as a basis for our investigation.