Author: Anik Samanta

Abstract: This paper looks briefly at the configuration of spatio-temporality and subjectivity in James Joyce’s short story ‘Araby’ from the thematic perspective of courtly love and chivalric romance and through Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of the chronotope and elements of Heideggerian phenomenology and Lacanian psychoanalysis.

Keywords: Araby, courtly love, chivalric romance, chronotope, blindness, desire, fantasy.

Article Info: Received: 13 Apr 2023; Received in revised form: 12 May 2023; Accepted: 20 May 2023; Available online: 29 May 2023

DOI: 10.22161/ijels.83.25