Date of Award
Spring 4-6-2012
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
English
First Advisor
LeeAnne Richardson
Second Advisor
Michael Galchinsky
Third Advisor
Ian Almond
Abstract
This thesis intends to investigate the ways in which the changing perceptions of landscape during the nineteenth century play out in Kipling’s treatment of Kim’s phenomenological and epistemological questions of identity by examining the indelible influence of space— geopolitical, narrative, and imaginative—on Kim’s identity. By interrogating the extent to which maps encode certain ideological assumptions, I will assess the problematic issues of Kim’s multi-faceted identity through an exploration of both geographical and narrative landscapes and the various chronotopes—Bakhtin’s term for coexisting frameworks of time and space—that ultimately provide a new reading of identity-formation in Kim.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/2776719
Recommended Citation
Parker, Daniel S., "Phenomenology of Space and TIme in Rudyard Kipling's Kim: Understanding Identity in the Chronotope." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2012.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/2776719