‘Looking down time’s telescope at myself’: reincarnation and global futures in David Mitchell’s fictional worlds

Rosemary Harris-Birtill

‘Looking down time’s telescope at myself’: reincarnation and global futures in David Mitchell’s fictional worlds

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Original language	English
Pages	163-181
Number of pages	19
Publication status	Published - 8 Sept 2017
Event	The 16th Triennial Conference of the International Society for the Study of Time (ISST) - University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Duration: 26 Jun 2016 → 2 Jul 2016

Conference

Conference	The 16th Triennial Conference of the International Society for the Study of Time (ISST)
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Edinburgh
Period	26/06/16 → 2/07/16

Keywords

International Society for the Study of Time
ISST
TIME
David Mitchell
reincarnation
The Bone Clocks
Cloud Atlas
Ghostwritten
Fiction
Contemporary fiction
English literature
Conference paper
Globalisation
Anthropocene

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Harris-Birtill, R. (2017). ‘Looking down time’s telescope at myself’: reincarnation and global futures in David Mitchell’s fictional worlds. 163-181. Paper presented at The 16th Triennial Conference of the International Society for the Study of Time (ISST), Edinburgh, United Kingdom. http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/15685241-12341382

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