David Mitchell / edited by Wendy Knepper and Courtney Hopf.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Knepper, Wendy, editor.

Hopf, Courtney, editor.

Series:

Contemporary critical perspectives series

Contemporary critical perspectives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mitchell, David (David Stephen)--Criticism and interpretation.

Mitchell, David.

Mitchell, David (David Stephen).

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiii, 210 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Summary:

"Since the publication of his first novel Ghostwritten in 1999, David Mitchell has rapidly established himself as one of the most important and original novelists of the 21st-century. David Mitchell: Contemporary Critical Perspectives brings together leading scholars of contemporary fiction to guide readers through the full range of the author's writings, from his major novels such as Cloud Atlas, Number9dream and The Bone Clocks, to his shorter pieces and his libretti. As well as exploring Mitchell's genre-hopping techniques and his engagement with key contemporary issues such as globalization, the environment and gender, the book also includes coverage of the film adaptation of Cloud Atlas. The volume includes an interview with David Mitchell as well as annotated guides to further reading and online resources to help students and readers alike explore the works of this dazzlingly inventive writer"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Globalization in David Mitchell's Ghostwritten : minding "the eality gap" / Hugh Charles O'Connell

Questing for the post-postmodern : David Mitchell's Number9dream / Nick Bentley

"What was knowledge for, I would ask myself" : science, technology and pharmakon in David Mitchell's Cloud atlas / Martin Paul Eve

Witnessing transhistorical trauma in Cloud atlas / Jason Mezey

Raids on the inarticulate : the stammering narrative of Black swan green / Courtney Hopf

History, globalization and the human subject in The thousand autumns of Jacob De Zoet / William Stephenson

Voicing tragedy in David Mitchell's libretti : wake and sunken garden / Rose Harris-Birtill

David Mitchell's representations of environmental crisis and ecological apocalypse / Treasa DeLoughry

The bone clocks and the mud of humanity : the anthropocene Bildungsroman / Chris Koenig Woodyard

David Mitchell as world-builder : The bone clocks and Slade house / Wendy Knepper

Interview : creating a fictional universe : an interview with David Mitchell / Courtney Hopf.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474262101

1474262104

OCLC:

1085575745