A Temporary Future: The Fiction of David Mitchell
Having emerged as one the leading contemporary British writers, David Mitchell is rapidly taking his place amongst British novelists with the gravitas of an Ishiguro or a McEwan. Written for a wide constituency of readers of contemporary literature, A Temporary Future: The Fiction of David Mitchell explores Mitchell's main concerns-including those of identity, history, language, imperialism, childhood, the environment, and ethnicity-across the six novels published so far, as well as his protean ability to write in multiple and diverse genres. It places Mitchell in the tradition of Murakami, Sebald, and Rushdie-writers whose works explore narr…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4411-1613-0
- EAN: 9781441116130
- Produktnummer: 28060409
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 341 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Patrick O'Donnell is Professor of English at Michigan State University, USA. He has taught at the University of Arizona, West Virginia University (where he was the Eberly Family Distinguished Professor of American Literature), and Purdue University (where he was editor of MFS: Modern Fiction Studies). He has also taught at several international universities, including the Université de Bordeaux III in France, the Universität Tübingen and the Universität Stuttgart (as Senior Fulbright Professor) in Germany, and Radboud University Nijmegen (as Fulbright Distinguished Chair of American Literature) in the Netherlands. He is the author or editor of 12 books, including The American Novel Now: Contemporary American Fiction Since 1980 (Blackwell, 2010), Latent Destinies: Cultural Paranoia and Contemporary U.S. Narrative (Duke University Press, 2000) and The Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century American Fiction (co-edited with David W. Madden & Justus Nieland, Blackwell, 2011).
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