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David Mitchell: Critical Essays

David Mitchell: Critical Essays

Dillon, Sarah

Paperback

Series: Contemporary Writers: Critical Essays, Book 1

Gifts & Stationery GeneralLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 1780240031
ISBN13: 9781780240039
Publisher: Gylphi
Published: Apr 20 2011
Pages: 274
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.58 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The outcome of the first international conference on David Mitchell's writing, this collection of critical essays, focuses on his first three novels - Ghostwritten (1999), number9dream (2001) and Cloud Atlas (2004) - to provide a sustained analysis of Mitchell's complex narrative techniques and the literary, political and cultural implications of his early work. The essays cover topics ranging from narrative structure, genre and the Bildungsroman to representations of Japan, postmodernism, the construction of identity, utopia, science fiction and postcolonialism. Contents Foreword David Mitchell 1. Introducing David Mitchell's Universe: A Twenty-First Century House of Fiction Sarah Dillon 2. The Novels in Nine Parts Peter Childs and James Green 3. 'Or something like that': Coming of Age in number9dream Kathryn Simpson 4. Remediations of 'Japan' in number9dream Baryon Tensor Posadas 5. The Stories We Tell: Discursive Identity Through Narrative Form in Cloud Atlas Courtney Hopf 6. Cloud Atlas: From Postmodernity to the Posthuman Hélène Machinal 7. Cloud Atlas and If on a winter's night a traveller: Fragmentation and Integrity in the Postmodern Novel Will McMorran 8. 'Strange Transactions': Utopia, Transmigration and Time in Ghostwritten and Cloud Atlas Caroline Edwards 9. Speculative Fiction as Postcolonial: Critique in Ghostwritten and Cloud Atlas Nicholas Dunlop 10. 'Moonlight bright as a UFO abduction': Science Fiction, Present-Future Alienation and Cognitive Mapping William Stephenson Notes on Contributors Index About the Editor Sarah Dillon is Lecturer in Contemporary Fiction in the School of English at the University of St Andrews. She is author of The Palimpsest: Literature, Criticism, Theory (2007) and has published essays on Jacques Derrida, Elizabeth Bowen, H.D., Michel Faber, Maggie Gee and David Mitchell.

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