Towards a Marxist Urban Sublime: Reading China Mieville's King Rat1

China Mieville's King Rat is an unusually complex book to classify generically. Freedman sketches out the conceptual basis of the Mievillian fictional universe, specifically focusing on the construction of the urban sublime theme. He argues that Mievillian sublime strives to incorporate the spe...

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Published inExtrapolation Vol. 44; no. 4; p. 395
Main Author Freedman, Carl
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Brownsville University of Texas at Brownsville 01.12.2003
Subjects
Essays
Marxism
Mieville, China
Novels
Politics
Source studies
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Summary:China Mieville's King Rat is an unusually complex book to classify generically. Freedman sketches out the conceptual basis of the Mievillian fictional universe, specifically focusing on the construction of the urban sublime theme. He argues that Mievillian sublime strives to incorporate the specifically political sublimity of Marxism.
ISSN:0014-5483
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