David Mitchell (Contemporary Writers: Critical Essays) - Critical Essays

Sarah Dillon, Peter Childs, James Green, Kathryn Simpson, Baryon Tensor Posadas, Courtney Hopf, Hélène Machinal, Will McMorran, Caroline Edwards, Nicholas Dunlop, William Stephenson

Gylphi Limited

2011

272 páginas

9h 4m

ISBN-10: 1780240031

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.