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SUMMARY:“A Temporal Sojourn in the World” - Natalie Babbitt’s Tuck E
 verlasting and Heidegger’s Care - Lisa Sainsbury\, Roehampton University
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CONTACT:Ewa Illakowicz
DESCRIPTION:Natalie Babbitt’s modern fable Tuck Everlasting (1975) refle
 cts on what it means to be human (and bovine) through an ambiguous and phi
 losophical layering of care\; a care-ful layering that is evocative of Mar
 tin Heidegger’s exploration of Da-sein in Being and Time (1927). In this
  talk\, Sainsbury will explore Heidegger’s notion of care and fable in r
 elation to the temporal condition of human being played out figuratively i
 n Tuck Everlasting. Emphasis will be on the mutual concepts of mortality a
 nd care at work in Babbitt’s novel and in Heidegger’s response to ‘a
 n old fable’ from Hyginus.\n\nLisa Sainsbury is Director of the National
  Centre for Research in Children’s Literature in the Department of Engli
 sh and Creative writing at Roehampton University. Her current area of rese
 arch is philosophy and contemporary children’s literature and her book\,
  Ethics and British Children’s Literature: Unexamined Life (Continuum-Bl
 oomsbury) is due for publication in 2013. \n\nALL WELCOME! \n
LOCATION:Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge CB2 8PQ\, room 
 GS5
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