| David Mitchell: Contemporary Critical Perspectives Contributor(s): Knepper, Wendy (Editor), Baxter, Jeannette (Editor), Hopf, Courtney (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1474262104 ISBN-13: 9781474262101 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $128.70 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 823.914 |
| LCCN: 2018059578 |
| Series: Contemporary Critical Perspectives |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.09 lbs) 232 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: David Mitchell is one of the most critically acclaimed authors in contemporary global writing. Novels such as Ghostwritten, Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks demonstrate the author's dazzling literary technique in an oeuvre that crosses genres, genders and borders, moving effortlessly through time and space. David Mitchell: Contemporary Critical Perspectives brings together leading scholars of contemporary fiction to guide readers through the full range of the author's writings, including discussions of all of his novels to-date plus his shorter fictions, essays and libretti. As well as offering extended coverage of Mitchell's most popular work, Cloud Atlas, the authors explore Mitchell's genre-hopping techniques, world-making aesthetics, and engagements with key contemporary issues such as globalization, empire, the environment, disability, trauma and technology. In addition, this book includes an expansive interview with David Mitchell as well as a guide to further reading to help students and readers alike explore the works of this tremendously inventive writer. |
Contributor Bio(s): Knepper, Wendy: - Wendy Knepper is a visiting scholar in World Literature at University of Washington. Her previous publications include Postcolonial Literature (2011) and Patrick Chamoiseau: A Critical Introduction (2012) as well as contributions to PMLA, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, ARIEL, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature and Small Axe, among others.Childs, Peter: - Peter Childs is Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research & Scholarship and Professor of Modern & Contemporary English Literature, Newman University, UK. He has published widely on twentieth and twenty-first century fiction.Groes, Sebastian: - Sebastian Groes is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Roehampton University, UK. He is the series editor of Bloomsbury's Contemporary Critical Perspectives Series, the editor of Ian McEwan (2013), and co-editor of Kazuo Ishiguro (2009) and Julian Barnes (2011), all published by Bloomsbury. |