Poetics of Empowerment in David Mitchell's Novels

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction

2 A Poetics of Empowerment?

Zooming in on Empowerment: Concepts and Contexts

Empowerment and Literature

3 Empowering Discourse

"All Boundaries Are Conventions": David Mitchell's Literary Playground

Chapters in an UEber-book: Understanding Mitchell's Fictional Universe

4 Empowering Characters

From Subjugation to Emancipation: Journeys of Empowerment in Cloud Atlas

Politics, Playground Bullies, Poetry: Empowerment in Black Swan Green

Culture and Genre Clashes: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

5 Empowering Readers

Reader-Response Theory, Empathy, Cognition, and Agency

David Mitchell's Novels and the Role of the Reader

6 Conclusion: Towards a Poetics of Empowerment

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• Humanidades
• Sociologia
• Estudos literários: desde ~ 1900
• Cultura popular

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