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Time and place are thought to be two important concepts in the analysis of literary works. These concepts form the background and they have a direct influence on the other components of the literary work such as plot, themes, etc. Bakthin (1981) thought that these two components have got equal significance and found out the term “chronotope”, which includes the combination of time and place. The aim of this study is to analyze the concept of chronotope in “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, which is considered to be one of the most important works of Irish modern literature and an example of “Bildungsroman (Kochis, 2008) and to explain the possible ways of using this work in the EFL classes.

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