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Together in the Crowd of Time: Temporal Decentering and Ethical Action in David Mitchell’s The Bone Clocks

dc.contributor.authorCouper, Simon
dc.contributor.copyright-releaseNot Applicableen_US
dc.contributor.degreeMaster of Artsen_US
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Englishen_US
dc.contributor.ethics-approvalNot Applicableen_US
dc.contributor.external-examinern/aen_US
dc.contributor.graduate-coordinatorDr Kathleen Cawseyen_US
dc.contributor.manuscriptsNot Applicableen_US
dc.contributor.thesis-readerDr Jason Haslamen_US
dc.contributor.thesis-readerDr Asha Jeffersen_US
dc.contributor.thesis-supervisorDr Alice Brittanen_US
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-18T12:22:42Z
dc.date.available2020-08-18T12:22:42Z
dc.date.defence2020-08-31
dc.date.issued2020-08-18T12:22:42Z
dc.description.abstractIn The Bone Clocks, the novelist David Mitchell demonstrates how crowded time leads to the interruption of self-centred temporal flows, creating moments of collision between the self and others, and sparking points of narrative inflection and ethical opportunity. Such moments call into question the value of empathy as a foundation of ethical action, and suggest new ways to think about the trajectories of subjects and civilizations alike. Whereas some might intend the expression “get lost” as an insult, in Mitchell’s best-case scenarios we can read it as an invitation to embrace interruption as a means to temporal decentering and ethical action.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10222/79666
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectenglish literatureen_US
dc.subjectnovelen_US
dc.subjecttimeen_US
dc.subjectdavid mitchellen_US
dc.subjectcosmopolitanismen_US
dc.subjectfantasticen_US
dc.subjectempathyen_US
dc.subjectethicsen_US
dc.subjectanthropoceneen_US
dc.subjectclimate fictionen_US
dc.subjectcrowded timeen_US
dc.titleTogether in the Crowd of Time: Temporal Decentering and Ethical Action in David Mitchell’s The Bone Clocksen_US

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