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VOL. 11, ISSUE 4 (2025)
Quantum time and nonlinear narratives: Rethinking temporality in Biblical and Sudha Murty’s stories
Authors
Divya J, Dr. M Richard Robert Raa
Abstract
This research examines the convergence of quantum time theory and
nonlinear narrative techniques in the Bible and chosen novels by Sudha Murty.
The Bible and the novels offer rich, multitemporal narratives that resist
linear temporality. Applying theories of quantum mechanics quantum time and
superposition respectively to literary study, this research investigates how
biblical and Murty’s narrative modes offer several possibilities at once,
circular time and fractured temporality. By close readings of hegemonic
biblical readings and Murty’s novels like Mahashweta and Gently Falls the
Bakula, this argument goes on that such fiction resists the traditional
chronological order. This blurring of time reanimates the explorations into
theme on the ideas of memory, identity, agency and moral complexity and
provides fresh insights into gendered lives and cultural change. Overall, the
study invokes the heuristic power of quantum theory’s use to literary
temporality and demands interdisciplinary discussion between science,
literature and theology.
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Pages:14-15
How to cite this article:
Divya J, Dr. M Richard Robert Raa "Quantum time and nonlinear narratives: Rethinking temporality in Biblical and Sudha Murty’s stories". International Journal of English Research, Vol 11, Issue 4, 2025, Pages 14-15
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