The Chronotope in Space Opera: A Comparative Analysis with the Adventure Novel

• Autor: Arroyo Barrigüete, Jose Luis
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2020
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/23095
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/lexis/article/view/23095
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Cronotopo; Bajtín; Space opera; Novela de aventuras y pruebas; Chronotope; Bakhtin; Adventure novel

In this paper we analyze the characteristics of the adventure novel of ordeal, which Bakhtin identifies as one of the three essential types of ­novelistic unity. The exegesis of such chronotope reveals a pattern not unlike that which articulates a popular sub-genre of science fiction: space opera. Our conclusion is that both chronotopes are virtually identical except for a very relevant aspect, temporal reversibility, absent in space opera, because of a lesser protagonism of the event. This is the result of a heroic axiology that is more typical of the epic than of the novel, an aspect that is also analyzed in the paper.