From the point of iew of studying the background, maybe a peek at Bakhtin's
"Epic and Novel" as well as the huge essay, "Forms of Time and of the
Chronotope in the Novel" in _The Dialogic Imagination_ would prove
helpful...
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
I don't need to
hold back here
in the union
of forms
Charles Olson
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