Eve, Martin Paul (2014) "some kind of thing it aint us but yet its in us": David Mitchell, Russell Hoban, and metafiction after the millennium. SAGE Open , pp. 1-10. ISSN 2158-2440.
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Abstract
This article appraises the debt that David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas owes to the novels of Russell Hoban, including, but not limited to, Riddley Walker. After clearly mapping a history of Hoban's philosophical perspectives and Mitchell's inter-textual genre-impersonation practice, the article assesses the degree to which Mitchell's metatextual methods indicate a nostalgia for by-gone radical aesthetics rather than reaching for new modes of its own. The article not only proposes several new backdrops against which Mitchell's novel can be read but also conducts the first in-depth appraisal of Mitchell's formal linguistic replication of Riddley Walker.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Contemporary Literature, Centre for |
| Depositing User: | Martin Eve |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Jul 2015 08:24 |
| Last Modified: | 31 Jul 2025 22:49 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/12196 |
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