Knepper, Wendy creator Knepper, Wendy Hopf, Courtney text London, UK : Bloomsbury Academic ©2019 monographic eng

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xiii, 210 pages ; 24 cm. 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 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. / Wendy Knepper English literatures Old English literatures English fiction Mitchell, David -- 1969- Mitchell, David -- (David Stephen) -- Criticism and interpretation Mitchell, David -- (David Stephen) 823.914 KNE 9781474262101 :International Book Distributors :Flat No 14, Prakash Apartment 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi 200824 20200824125112.0