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The Eternal Recurrence of (Hi)Story: David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas

Data publikacji: 19.07.2018

Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2018, Volume 13, Issue 2, s. 107 - 115

https://doi.org/10.4467/20843933ST.18.010.8632

Autorzy

Bożena Kucała
Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie, Polska, ul. Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków
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Tytuły

The Eternal Recurrence of (Hi)Story: David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas

Abstrakt

This article analyses the structural and thematic repetitions in David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas. Similar motifs and character types are re-used in the novel’s circular rather than linear structure. It is argued that, while staging a dialectic of sameness and difference, Cloud Atlas eschews the Platonic hierarchy of a model and its copy and blurs the distinction between the real and the fictional. All the six interlocked narratives that build the novel may be regarded as artefacts, remediated and encased in other artefacts. The same material is reconfigured in an endless cycle, which, as the article argues, harks back to the second, Nietzschean model of repetition distinguished by J. Hillis Miller in Fiction and Repetition. 
 
 

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Informacje

Informacje: Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2018, Volume 13, Issue 2, s. 107 - 115

Typ artykułu: Oryginalny artykuł naukowy

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The Eternal Recurrence of (Hi)Story: David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas
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The Eternal Recurrence of (Hi)Story: David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas

Autorzy

Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie, Polska, ul. Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków

Publikacja: 19.07.2018

Status artykułu: Otwarte __T_UNLOCK

Licencja: CC BY-NC-ND  ikona licencji

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