Chronotope

Abstract: Recent developments in the study of language in society have moved the field increasingly away from linear models toward complex models. The complexity of timespace as an aspect of what is called context is of key importance in this development, and this article engages with two possibly useful concepts in view of this: chronotope and scale. Chronotope can be seen as invokable chunks of history that organize the indexical order of discourse; scale, in turn, can be seen as the scope of communicability of such invocations. Thus, whenever we see chronotopes, we see them mediated by scales. The cultural stuff of chronotopes is conditioned by the sociolinguistic conditions of scale. This nuanced approach to timescale contextualization offers new directions for complexity-oriented research in our fields.

Abstract: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix INTRODUCTION Late Modernism and the Anthropological Turn 1 ONE Modernism and Metropolitan Perception in England 23 The Other Side of the Hedge 23 "A Planet Full of Scraps" 28 Englishness as/vsModernity 31 Autoethnography and the Romance of Retrenchment 36 Modernist Valedictions circa 1940 46 TWO Insular Rites: Virginia Woolf and the Late Modernist Pageant-Play 54 Amnesia in Fancy Dress: Pageants for a New Century 56 "A Little Nucleus of Eternity ": J C Powys's A Glastonbury Romance 62 Rebuilding the Ruined House: T S Eliot's The Rock 70 "Innocent Island ": EM Forster's Passage to England 76 Island Stories and Modernist Ends in Between the Acts 85 THREE Insular Time: TS Eliot and Modernism's English End 108 The Antidiasporic Imagination 108 Metropolitan Standard Time 112 Anglocentric Revivals 117 Notes from a Shrinking Island 127 Four Quartets and the Chronotope of Englishness 135 FOUR Becoming Minor 163 The Keynesian National Object: Late Modernism and The General Theory 166 Local Color: English Cultural Studies as Home Anthropology 182 Ethnography in Reverse:(Post)colonial Writers in Fifties England 198 Conclusion: Minority Culture and Minor Culture 215 NOTES 227 INDEX 277

Abstract: Any discursive event of communication can invoke (index) one or more other events in the nontrivial sense that focal aspects of the ongoing entextualization presuppose that the indexing and indexed lie within some chronotope of "-eval"ness. Varied processes in distinct institutional sites in the macrosociological communicative economy shed light on the contingent varieties of such interdiscursivity. Token-sourced interdiscursivity implies a reconstruction of a specific, historically contingent communicative event as an entextualization/contextualization structure, complete in all its essentials as drawn upon. Type-sourced interdiscursivity implies normativities of form and function, such as rhetorical norms, genres, et cetera. Token-targeted and type-targeted interdiscursivities concern the characteristics of the indexing discursive event(s) as contingent happenings or normativities.