“The Weak are Meat, the Strong do Eat”: Metamodernist Predacity in David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, and The Bone Clocks
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2020-08-14
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This thesis sets out to provide insight in the theme of predacity within David Mitchell’s writing as well as contribute to a clearer understanding of the structure of feeling called metamodernism. The introduction explains the theory of predacity and metamodernism and how they will be employed in the two subsequent chapters. Chapter one will deal with the way predacity is explored and chapter two will analyse whether or not its exploration contributes to Mitchell’s perceived metamodernist writing. The conclusion summarises the arguments made and gives suggestions for future research.
Keywords: Predacity, David Mitchell, Metamodernism, Cannibalism in Literature, Moral Didacticism, Close Reading.
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Faculteit der Letteren