Getting Past the ‘Post-’: History and Time in the Fiction of David Mitchell
Maria Beville
- Vol. 6, Iss: 11, pp 0-0
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The authors examines Mitchell's Cloud Atlas (2004) and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (2010) with a particular focus on history and narrative time. But their focus is on the past rather than the present.Abstract:
This paper examines David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas (2004) and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (2010), with a particular focus on history and narrative time. It seeks to offer an alternative perspective on the multiple and intertwined fictional narratives of Mitchell’s oeuvre as these evidence a move past the "post-" of postmodernism.read more
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Time and Narrative
TL;DR: In the first two volumes of this work, Paul Ricoeur examined the relations between time and narrative in historical writing, fiction, and theories of literature as discussed by the authors, and this final volume, a comprehensive reexamination and synthesis of the ideas developed in volumes 1 and 2, stands as Ricoeure's most complete and satisfying presentation of his own philosophy.
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Reanimating the English Historical Novel in the Twenty-First Century – The Case of David Mitchell’s the Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet
TL;DR: This paper argued that Mitchell's novel The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (2010) represents a new variation of the genre of historical fiction and identified and explored Mitchell's key strategies of writing about history, concluding that the use of the present tense, the subjective perspectives and the exclusion of foreknowledge lend the novel dramatic qualities.
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Time Is/Time Was/Time Is Not: David Mitchell and the Resonant Interval
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Storytelling in David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas: Archiving the Future-to-Come
TL;DR: Cloud Atlas, published in 2004 (London: Sceptre), is British author David Mitchell's third and arguably best-known novel as mentioned in this paper, one that has attracted significant critical attention.
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An ‘Intra’textual Reading of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas
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