A Bakhtinian Perspective for the Chronotopic Evaluation of Symbols in “hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway

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dc.contributor.author Aksoy, N.B.
dc.contributor.other Department of English Language and Literature
dc.date.accessioned 2024-10-06T11:17:03Z
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dc.date.issued 2024
dc.department Atılım University en_US
dc.department-temp Aksoy N.B., Atılım University, Ankara, Turkey en_US
dc.description.abstract This paper discusses the metaphoric and spatial representations in the short story “Hills Like White Elephants” from the perspective of Bakhtin’s concept of chronotope. Bakhtin explains the concept of chronotope in literary texts as the intersection of space and time configured either in abstract or concrete entities, represented by symbols and metaphors or real-time objects and spaces. In the story, an unmarried pregnant girl and the child's father are portrayed at a train station discussing their and their unborn child's future. The story reflects the qualities of a typical Hemingway style, the “iceberg theory” he favours in storytelling. The train station in the story is located at the intersection of railway lines in the direction of Barcelona and Madrid, and this location becomes a symbol of the decision the couple will make at that particular historical time about keeping or aborting the baby. The station is situated between a patch of dry brown land and long and white hills across the fertile valley of the Ebro river, where the characters are about to decide whether to go back to their old, barren life or keep the baby and move on to a promising and happy life. This spatial juncture, the train station, symbolizing a public space of modernity, and the contrasting hills like white elephants, symbolizing the personal dilemma of the pregnant girl, intersect in the characters’ lives and illustrate Bakhtin’s concept of chronotope. This particular chronotope reveals the conflict and tension between the hills like white elephants and the train station near the barren, dry, brown earth, as well as between the woman and man in their perceptions of their lives and future together. © 2024 Ovidius University. All rights reserved. en_US
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dc.identifier.endpage 28 en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1224-1768
dc.identifier.issue 2 en_US
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dc.identifier.startpage 20 en_US
dc.identifier.volume 35 en_US
dc.institutionauthor Tekin, Kuğu
dc.institutionauthor Turgut, Zeynep Rana
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Ovidius University en_US
dc.relation.ispartof Analele Universitatii Ovidius Constanta, Seria Filologie en_US
dc.relation.publicationcategory Makale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı en_US
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dc.subject Bakhtin en_US
dc.subject chronotope en_US
dc.subject Hemingway en_US
dc.subject space en_US
dc.subject spatiality en_US
dc.title A Bakhtinian Perspective for the Chronotopic Evaluation of Symbols in “hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway en_US
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