Descriptive Economy in the New Weird Short Story: China Miéville’s “The Condition of New Death”
2020 ◽
Vol 69
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pp. 143-157
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.
2020 ◽
Vol 10
(2)
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pp. 161-172
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