This study argues that Washington Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle” (1819) is a multi-chronotopic short story. The study addresses the chronotopes of space and time in Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle.” This study maintains a fundamental, functional role for space/time in the short story, demonstrating that it is not enough to think of time and place as a background for the plot, but rather as symbols. The main goal of this study is to apply Mikhail Bakhtin and Eduard Valsov’s theory of chronotopes to Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle.” This study will be implemented qualitatively and descriptively. This study is notable as it attempts to analyze “Rip Van Winkle” with a different approach of literary theory. Such application of the chronotope concept can be connected to historiography. As for the outcomes, this paper has delineated that through chronotopes, “Rip Van Winkle” is politically charged, historically immersed in, and socially appurtenant .
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