Dickens, Bergson & Time Travel: with Céleste Callen

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What does it mean to experience time? Is it a linear journey from past to present, or is it a complex and intricate web of memories, feelings, and experiences?
Our guest today is the inimitable Céleste Callen, from The University of Edinburgh, who delves into her thesis that explores subjective temporal experience in Dickens’ fiction,  through the lens of Henri Bergson’s philosophy of time.

This episode explores Bergson's seminal works: Time and Free Will  & Matter and Memory  and Dickens' Christmas Books: A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Haunted Man and his first person narratives David Copperfield & Great Expectations ...

Readings in this episode are from the wonderful Sophie Reynolds and Peter Bray

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Host: Dominic Gerrard
Series Artwork: Léna Gibert
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