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Chaotic narrative : complexity, causality, time and autopoiesis in David Mitchell’s Ghostwritten
(2011-03-10) - Journal article,
David Mitchell is one of Britain’s foremost contemporary writers who is only just becoming the subject of academic attention. Focusing on his first novel, Ghostwritten (1999), this essay argues that the science of complexity ...
Re-inscribing De Quincey's palimpsest : the significance of the palimpsest in contemporary literary and cultural studies
(2005-09) - Journal article,
In 1845, Thomas De Quincey inaugurated the substantive concept of 'the palimpsest'. Since then, this concept has frequently occurred in creative, critical and theoretical texts across the fields of literature, philosophy ...
Becoming Bertha : Virtual difference and repetition in postcolonial 'writing back', a Deleuzian reading of Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea
(2010-03) - Journal article,
Critical responses to Wide Sargasso Sea have seized upon Rhys's novel as an exemplary model of writing back. Looking beyond the actual repetitions which recall Brontë’s text, I explore Rhys's novel as an expression of ...
David Mitchell : The Bone Clocks
(2015-06) - Journal item,
An English lecturer, a palliative care practitioner, and an absent poet have a confabulation
(2014-07-09) - Journal article,
The possibilities for developing the poet Douglas Dunn’s archive (which includes the drafts and manuscripts for his collection Elegies, dealing with the terminal illness and death of the poet’s wife from cancer) for ...
"It's a question of words, therefore" : becoming-animal in Michel Faber’s Under the Skin
(2011-03) - Journal article,
This essay reads Michel Faber’s debut novel Under the Skin (2000) in the context of contemporary philosophical and literary critical debates about the ethical relation between human and nonhuman animals. It argues that ...