“No Man is an Island”: Tracing Functions of Insular Landscapes in David Mitchell’s Fiction
Islands are a powerful recurring motif in the writing of David Mitchell. His globe-trotting fictions negotiate the trope of ‘islandness’ as ambiguously positioned between desire and hostility, stranding protagonists on bountiful shores or dooming them in squalid insular exiles. As seemingly containe...
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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/564/ |