Abstract
This article investigates the forms and functions of description in New Weird fiction, using texts by China Miéville as examples. It contrasts the expansive descriptive routines of his novel Perdido Street Station (2000) with the compact forms of descriptivity found in the short story “The Condition of New Death,” focussing on the role of metaphoric condensation and the blending of description with narrative and explanatory modes. Occasionally drawing on other stories contained in Miéville’s 2015 collection Three Moments of an Explosion, it formulates a model of the descriptive economy of short fiction.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Editorial
- Introduction
- The Short Story, the New Weird, and the Literary Market
- Articles
- The Long and the Short of It: Approaching the (Un-)Representable in China Miéville’s “The Tain” (2002) and “The Condition of New Death” (2014)
- Descriptive Economy in the New Weird Short Story: China Miéville’s “The Condition of New Death”
- Mean Streets: Tracking the Dispositives of Address(es) with China Miéville’s “Reports of Certain Events in London”
- Character and Perspective in Cosmic Horror: Lovecraft and Kiernan
- Book Reviews
- Stefan Schubert: Narrative Instability: Destabilizing Identities, Realities, and Textualities in Contemporary Popular Culture
- Michael Weber: Die Chronologie von Emily Brontës Wuthering Heights. Literary and Cultural Studies, Theory and the (New) Media
- Müller, Timo: The African American Sonnet: A Literary History
- Books Received
- Books Received
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Editorial
- Introduction
- The Short Story, the New Weird, and the Literary Market
- Articles
- The Long and the Short of It: Approaching the (Un-)Representable in China Miéville’s “The Tain” (2002) and “The Condition of New Death” (2014)
- Descriptive Economy in the New Weird Short Story: China Miéville’s “The Condition of New Death”
- Mean Streets: Tracking the Dispositives of Address(es) with China Miéville’s “Reports of Certain Events in London”
- Character and Perspective in Cosmic Horror: Lovecraft and Kiernan
- Book Reviews
- Stefan Schubert: Narrative Instability: Destabilizing Identities, Realities, and Textualities in Contemporary Popular Culture
- Michael Weber: Die Chronologie von Emily Brontës Wuthering Heights. Literary and Cultural Studies, Theory and the (New) Media
- Müller, Timo: The African American Sonnet: A Literary History
- Books Received
- Books Received