METAFICTION IN DAVID MITCHELL’S GHOSTWRITTEN AND THE BONE CLOCKS
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2022-07-05
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In this thesis I examine the literary merit of metafictional elements in David Mitchell’s novels Ghostwritten and The Bone Clocks. This thesis will answer the central question of what metafictional elements can be found in these two novels and what their function is. Moreover, the works are set a couple of years apart which allows this thesis to look at what metafictional strategies David Mitchel re-employs. Metafictional texts always redirect the attention of the reader to question the reality or fictionality of a story. I will argue that Mitchell uses metafiction to draw attention to a second layer in his text which makes the reader aware of the fact that they are reading a text and therefore question the reality of the story.
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