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020			_a9781474262101
028			_a:International Book Distributors _b:Flat No 14, Prakash Apartment 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi _c:115449 _d:29/06/2020
082			_a823.914 KNE
100			_aKnepper, Wendy
245			_aDavid Mitchell _c/ Wendy Knepper
260			_aLondon, UK _b: Bloomsbury Academic, _c ©2019
300			_axiii, 210 pages _c ; 24 cm.
365			_b6919
490			_aContemporary critical perspectives series.
505			_aGlobalization 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.
520			_aSince 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
650			_aEnglish literatures
650			_aOld English literatures
650			_a English fiction
650			_aMitchell, David -- 1969-
650			_aMitchell, David -- (David Stephen) -- Criticism and interpretation.
650			_aMitchell, David -- (David Stephen)
700			_aKnepper, Wendy
700			_aHopf, Courtney
942			_cBOOK