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chronotope

noun

  1. The representation, in language, of a particular time and space.

    […] but the methodology also requires that postmodern literary chronotopes are related to a historical development of the novel (itself a kind of chronotope), to representational chronotopes in other art forms, and to the practical chronotopes that […]

Where it comes from

From chrono- (“time”) + -tope (“space”), from Russian хронотоп (xronotop) as used by Mikhail Bakhtin.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry chronotope (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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