The article represents the analysis of M. Atwood’s short story “The Bog Man”. What we observe here is the process of forming the double voiced discourse
by means of the bog body chronotope as the main element of compositional, time and space levels of the text. The protagonist is trying to revise her own past. Her attempts to choose a suitable narrative pattern become embodied in a double voiced discourse as a narrative core of the short story. “The Bog Man” becomes a clear example of polyphonic discourse. Various narrative patterns which the protagonist tries on to articulate her past constitute sub discourses, the sum of which forms polyphonic text that represents a wide range of possible visions and voices. A happily ever after, gothic, and anecdote narra tive patterns represent the already existing ways of telling the protagonist tries to appropriate feeling unable to form her own interpretation. As the story is based on perception of past, chronotope is becoming a necessary mean for interpreting relations between time, space, and narration in polyphonic text.
Reference to article:
Kuchmarenko L. S. The bog body chronotope and double-voiced discourse in M. Atwood’s “The bog man” // Ivanovo State University Bulletin. Series «The Humanities». 2021. No.4. P. 20–28.