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David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas : "revolutionary or gimmicky?" : a thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in English at Massey University, Manawatu, New Zealand

Johnston-Ellis, Sarah Jane2010

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Recycled alterity: Familiar dehumanisation in the contemporary fiction of genetic posthumanism

Irvine, AnaiseResearchSpace@Auckland2016

… familiar by recent history. David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas (2004), Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2005), and Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy (2003-2013) are examined as key examples of fiction in this area. Other novels, plays, and films are also analysed, including George Lucas’s THX …

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Disposable Life: The Literary Imagination and the Contemporary Novel

Ciobanu, Calina2015

… replicated human (the clone in David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go), the woman (in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy), and the postcolonial subject (the victim of industrial disaster in Indra Sinha's Animal's People and political violence in Michael Ondaatje's …

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Get yourself connected: time, space, and character networks in David Mitchell's fiction

Lesser, Josh2014

<p>This thesis explores the works of novelist David Mitchell, paying specific attention to the ways in which he uses his narratives to emulate and remediate global networks and contemporary fiction tropes. Though his novels are rarely set in the immediate present, Mitchell's creations are connected …

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