... in Zachry's atlas. The fact that Ewing shares his first name with Zachry's lost brother may be yet another clue to Mitchell's interconnected web, but it also implies a deep kinship between the atlas of clouds and the atlases of the British empire. Cloud Atlas' s investment in the mediating power...

...Scott Selisker This article describes how the novelist David Mitchell employs the “ topos of the cult,” a set of conventions that describe a mental state of unfreedom, in the novels Ghostwritten (1999) and Cloud Atlas (2004). This figuration of an unfree form of society—characterized by a group's...

...John Cayley Martin Paul Eve , Close Reading with Computers: Textual Scholarship, Computational Formalism, and David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas ( Stanford : Stanford UP , 2019 ), pp. 272 , paper, $25.00 . Copyright © 2021 by Novel, Inc. 2021 Any of us who may have been anxious...

... redistribution by the forces of neoliberalism). Jameson invokes science fiction, the genre that has assigned itself the task of writing future history and the topic of his earlier Archaeologies of the Future —only to settle for David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas , a sort of middlebrow parasite of science fiction...

... realism, where it exposes that reality as the more artificial of the two. Nothing better illustrates the principle that what counts as human is always a mediating model and therefore displaceable than the Russian doll structure of nested narratives composing David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas. As each...

... The Cosmopolitan Novel and are its most consistently rewarding feature. At the conceptual and structural center of the book is the chapter on David Mitchell, whom Schoene regards as the pioneer and best exemplar of cosmopolitan narration. In Ghostwritten (1999) and especially Cloud Atlas (2004), Mitchell...

... and not leave the house” (95). To me, that sounds like bingeing. There are other unpersuasive moments, like singling out the queer character in Cloud Atlas for special suffering: according to Dango, the novel requires “Frobisher, and only Frobisher, to die” (141). That's simply not true. How about Sonmi-500...

...” ( 168 ) —not to mention the discussion of author David Mitchell's idea of a multilayered “Über-novel” exemplified by his own unanticipated bestseller Cloud Atlas (2004). The most sustained discussion of this controversial thicket of issues is to be found in Anderson's third chapter, titled “From...

...Catherine Gallagher Jameson's example of such a truly historical contemporary novel is David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas , because it dares to envision a range of futures as well as pasts for the planet. Even if one disagrees with this specific assessment, it serves to remind us of the hopeful side...

... >. Makumbi Jennifer Nansubuga . Kintu . Oakland : Transit Books , 2017 . Mitchell David . Cloud Atlas . New York : Random House , 2004 . Mwesigire Bwesigye Bwa . “ Beyond the Afropolitan Postnation: The Contemporaneity of Jennifer Makumbi’s Kintu .” Research in African...

... that Ghostwritten (as well as Mitchell’s second novel, Cloud Atlas) could possibly be faulted for seeming like a set of virtuosic writer’s exercises in multiple genres. Second, if the novel of the nation requires a capacious and overarching point of view, a global novel would arguably need to establish...

... own heart He hangs the cloud, the film of his existence over all outward things . .. we are still imprisoned in a dungeon, a curtain intercepts our view, we do not breathefieely the air of nature or of our own thoughts-the other admired author draws aside the curtain, and the veil...

... in the clouds of modern history, when the progressive force exerted by capitalism could for a time be seen clearly. This historical understanding of capitalism emerges in dialectical fashion to mediate between a revolutionary critique of feudal absolutism and a reactionary defense of the ancien régime...

... productions resembles the cloud of dramatic poets of the great Athenian age” (“Memoir” 368). Potentially, this quotation and its idea of an English fictional école de morale might be read as going some way toward recognizing Austen’s literary greatness by highlighting the qualities and aims of her...

... the clearing of the swamp, recalls an early scene in Silver Fleece of inhabiting: Bles's first vision of Zora dancing “as on clouds of flame” as she makes “formless, boundless music” before the lit fireplace in Elspeth's cabin, a vision that leaves Bles “trembling” (2, 3). As a figure for the imagined...