CHRONOTOPOS AS A TIME-SPACE BASIS FOR MODELLING A LITERARY FICTIONAL WORLD

Abstract

The article deals with the notion of chronotopos viewed as a literary textual category representing time and space of an imaginary fictional world, and presents an analysis of the story by H. Wells “The Country of the Blind” from this perspective. By means of the interpretation analysis as well as dictionary definition componential analysis of the lexicon of the text, the chronotopos of the given literary work is represented through a variety of binary oppositions. The analysis results in displaying such antonymic oppositions as ‘present / past’, ‘day / night’, ‘work time / rest time’, ‘motion / motionlessness’, ‘up / down’, ‘limited / unlimited’, etc. The oppositions mentioned above serve as a structural basis for creating the fictional world representing the contrast between two constituent worlds – that of the main character and of his antagonists.