Geography of the Narrative Self in Stuart Turton’s The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

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Result on the web
<a href="https://absa.upce.cz/index.php/absa/article/view/2782/2420" target="_blank" >https://absa.upce.cz/index.php/absa/article/view/2782/2420</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.46585/absa.2025.18.2782" target="_blank" >10.46585/absa.2025.18.2782</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Geography of the Narrative Self in Stuart Turton’s The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Original language description
This paper examines how Stuart Turton’s The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (2018) engages in ongoing debates concerning embodied consciousness and personal identity yet to be resolved by current theories linking mind and body. The analysis integrates a neuroscientific approach (Greenfield), narrative self theory (Dennett, Schechtman), pre-narrative self-consciousness (Zahavi), embodied narrative (Brandon), transpersonal psychology (Grof), and Eastern philosophical concepts (Blackmore, Watts) with close textual analysis to study how Turton’s protagonist navigates self-definition across multiple bodily experiences. His behaviour and actions are influenced by emotions, skills and reasoning that he perceives as temporarily acquired from the body and mind of his current ‘host’. Although initially it may appear paradoxical, Turton’s narrative constructs a complex geography of personal identity, suggesting that consciousness persists independently of specific embodiment, while remaining fundamentally shaped by bodily experience. This paper examines the capacity of speculative fiction to engage with philosophical problems of the mind-body relationship and to advocate for alternative approaches to selfhood and embodied consciousness.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60206 - Specific literatures

Project
<a href="/en/project/GA25-16501S" target="_blank" >GA25-16501S: British and American Crime Fiction from the Perspective of Non-Places</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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