Every word has a history of usage to which it responds, and anticipates a future response. A German cannot use the word "fatherland" or the phrase "blood and soil" without also echoing the meaning that those terms took on under National Socialism. For Bakhtin, the influence can also occur at the level of the individual word or phrase as much as it does the work and even the oeuvre or collection of works. The chronotope could be considered as a literary category of a simultaneously artistic representation of content and form being in a continuously inter-relation with the remitter and the receiver. For those only recently introduced to Bakhtin's ideas but familiar with T.S.Eliot, his "dialogic" is consonant with Eliot's ideas in "Tradition and the Individual Talent," where Eliot holds that "the past should be altered by the present as much as the present is directed by the past". Though Bakhtin's "dialogic" emanates from his work with colleagues in what we now call the "Bakhtin Circle" in years following 1918, his work was not known to the West or translated into English until the 1970s. This is not merely a matter of influence, for the dialogue extends in both directions, and the previous work of literature is as altered by the dialogue as the present one is. At the very beginning of his work Form of Time and Chronotope in the Novel, M. Dialogic literature is in communication with multiple works. It does not merely answer, correct, silence, or extend a previous work, but informs and is continually informed by the previous work. 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. The dialogic work carries on a continual dialogue with other works of literature and other authors. Bakhtin says: Chronotope is an anaphoric designation in the sense that it takes its meaning from reference to another term, time-space. Bakhtins chronotope is a distinctly literary concept, borrowed (in his own words) from Einsteins theory of time-space. Bakhtins idea of the chronotope, time-space. What I have done is to approach it using M.M. Bakhtin contrasts the dialogic and the "monologic" work of literature. In order to fruitfully define and discuss the post-apocalypse, one must first have a system in place that can do so. The English terms dialogic and dialogism often refer to the concept used by the Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin in his work of literary theory, The Dialogic Imagination. Freebase (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: