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Literary time is different from normal time. Authors shorten walks or omit details.
Adaptation of the concepts of biosphere and noosphere - where derived from the interpretation of words’ meanings, conceptualized through an abstract sphere.
Chronotype
In literary theory and philosophy of language, the chronosphere is how configurations of space and time are represented in language and discourse.
Genre is rooted in how one perceives the flow of events and its representation of particular worldviews or ideologies.
Bakhtin:
We will give the name chronotope (literally, ‘time space’) to the intrinsic connectedness of temporal and spatial relationships that are artistically expressed in literature. This term [space-time] is employed in mathematics, and was introduced as part of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. The special meaning it has in relativity theory is not important for our purposes; we are borrowing it for literary criticism almost as a metaphor (almost, but not entirely). What counts for us is the fact that it expresses the inseparability of space and time (time as the fourth dimension of space). We understand the chronotope as a formally constitutive category of literature; we will not deal with the chronotope in other areas of culture.
In the literary artistic chronotope, spatial and temporal indicators are fused into one carefully thought-out, concrete whole. Time, as it were, thickens, takes on flesh, becomes artistically visible; likewise, space becomes charged and responsive to the movements of time, plot and history. This intersection of axes and fusion of indicators characterizes the artistic chronotope.
The chronotope in literature has an intrinsic generic significance. It can even be said that it is precisely the chronotope that defines genre and generic distinctions, for in literature the primary category in the chronotope is time. The chronotope as a formally constitutive category determines to a significant degree the image of man in literature as well. The image of man is always intrinsically chronotopic
Müller discusses the chronotope of the road, which for Bakhtin was a meeting place but in recent literature no longer brings people together in this way because automobiles have changed the way we perceive the time and space of the road. Car drivers want to minimize the time they spend on the road. They are rarely interested in the road as a physical space, the natural environment around the road, or the environmental implications of their driving. This contrasts with earlier literary examples such as Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” or John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath, where the road is described as part of the natural environment and the travelers are interested in that environment
Plot vs Fabula
Plot is the temporal sequence the readers are given.
Fabula is actual temporal sequence of the events (i.e. including the birth of Hamlet).
These conventions create a strange architecture of space and time specific to literature called the chronotype. Thus the Chronotype is a useful way to discuss the time and space in a literary work by drawing attention that you don’t mean regular space time.