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This volume offers a broad description of the development and perspectives of literary sociology within the discipline of comparative literature. It brings together researchers who work (implicitly or explicitly) within the field of comparative literature and who opt, methodologically, for a broad approach that sees literary-theoretical problems as part of more general cultural issues. Several research options that marked the history of literary sociology or that can be considered as belonging to its legacy are presented in this book.
The point of departure is the observation that, in the...

Bart Keunen s boldly comprehensive theory of literature springs from the synthesis between narrative time and space forms called the chronotope (from the Greek chronos time and topos place ). The originator of the theory, Mikhail Bakhtin, argued that each literary culture and each genre uses a family of chronotopes that endow the cultures and genres with their specific aesthetic charm, as well as their cognitive and moral strength.
After constructing an archeology of the chronotope, Keunen proposes a remarkably original description of the various types of chronotopes. Chronotypes that...