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• Title: Mind the Gap: The Impertinent Predicates (And Subjects) of King Rat and Looking for Jake and Other Stories (Report)
• Author : Extrapolation
• Release Date : January 22, 2009
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 229 KB

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King Rat (1998) and most of the stories collected in Looking for Jake (2005) are set in London, and nearly all of them could be taken as examples of what Brian Attebery calls "indigenous fantasy." Such fantasy narratives make This article will trace some of the ways in which Mieville's London-based fictions think about and with this gap between ontologies, and problematize it as a way of understanding fantastic texts. I begin by considering some of the problems involved in generic classification and in conceptualizing texts as hybrid, whether of different genres or ontic spheres. Mieville's fiction worries away at such questions which are not merely a matter of aesthetics or form, but of politics and praxis. King Rat and Looking for Jake can be understood as exercises in thinking through the ways in which the fantastic is good for thinking with if one wants not merely to talk about the world but to change it. In a remarkable, but as-yet unpublished, sf novel, Mieville turns to the question of metaphor, itself often considered in terms of "understanding one conceptual domain in terms of another conceptual domain" (Kovecses 4). This cognitive linguistics model of metaphor is structurally homologous to Attebery's indigenous fantasy. A close reading of Mieville's understanding of metaphor offers insight into the problem of how to conceptualize fantastic texts--and the world.

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