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标题：“some kind of thing it aint us but yet its in us”
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作者：Martin Paul Eve
期刊名称：SAGE Open
印刷版ISSN：2158-2440
电子版ISSN：2158-2440
出版年度：2014
卷号：4
期号：1
DOI：10.1177/2158244014521636
语种：English
出版社：SAGE Publications
摘要：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.
关键词：David Mitchell; Russell Hoban; metatextuality; Cloud Atlas; Riddley Walker