JCERJournal of Contemporary Educational Research2208-84662208-8474Bio-Byword Scientific Publishing Pty. Ltd.10.26689/jcer.v3i4.758ArticlePast and Present: Historical Views in Graham Swift's Waterlandhttps://artdesignp.com/journal/JCER/3/4/10.26689/jcer.v3i4.758JiaoWei2019342019-07-10Abstract: The semi-autobiographical novel Waterland by twentieth-century British writer Graham Swift has been recognized as a popular work by British literary critics. Under the guidance of Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of the literary chronotope, this paper analyses both the various types of chronotope in the novel as well as the author's historical view between different times and spaces through the dialogue.

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