Geography of the Narrative Self in Stuart Turton’s The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
American & British Studies Annual December 16, 2025 Elzbieta Perkowska-Gawlik
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...