Mark Bould Mark.Bould@uwe.ac.uk
Professor of Film and Literature
Mind the gap: the impertinent predicates (and subjects) of King Rat and Looking for Jake and other stories
Bould, Mark
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Abstract
A critical account of China Miéville’s King Rat and the stories in Looking for Jake, which considers contemporary attempts to anatomise the fantastic and draws on the theorisations of metaphor to open up a new approach to fantastic texts.
Citation
Bould, M. (2011). Mind the gap: the impertinent predicates (and subjects) of King Rat and Looking for Jake and other stories. Extrapolation, 50(2), 307-325. https://doi.org/10.3828/extr.2009.50.2.10
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Publication Date | Jul 19, 2011 |
Journal | Extrapolation |
Print ISSN | 0014-5483 |
Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 50 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 307-325 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.3828/extr.2009.50.2.10 |
Keywords | China Miéville, fantasy theory, metaphor, realism |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/960864 |
Publisher URL | http://liverpool.metapress.com/content/122345/ |
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