The Iterable Messiah: Postmodernist Mythopoeia in Cloud Atlas
This article explores the interplay between two seemingly contrary impulses in David Mitchell’s novel Cloud Atlas: the mythopoeic and the postmodernist. Specifically, the article focuses on the novel’s postmodernist refiguration of the biblical myth of deliverance. Merging its biblical messianism wi...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2018-10-01
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| Series: | C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings |
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| Online Access: | https://c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/562/ |