%0 Book %A Harris-Birtill, Rose %I Bloomsbury Publishing PLC %D 2019 %C London %G English %B New Horizons in Contemporary Writing Ser %@ 9781350078604 %T David Mitchell's Post-Secular World: Buddhism, Belief and the Urgency of Compassion %U https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=5645981 %U https://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9781350078598.pdf %X Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- David Mitchell's Fictional World: A Chronology -- Introducing David Mitchell's Fictional World -- Entering Mitchell's macronovel -- David Mitchell's narrative cartographies -- Mapping the macronovel -- Introducing the mandala -- Towards a plural post-secular -- Mapping the mandala -- Towards a mandalic mapping -- Chapter 1: Enter the 'World-Machine': Navigating David Mitchell's Narrative Islands -- Mapping the metaphysical -- David Mitchell's 'World-Machine' and globalization -- David Mitchell's narrative islands -- Belief and secularity in David Mitchell's macronovel -- 'World in a bottle': David Mitchell's short stories -- The coming-of-age narrative as morality tale -- Mortality and the supernatural -- Mitchell's metafictions -- David Mitchell's short stories and the building blocks of belief -- Beyond the 'World-Machine' -- Chapter 2: 'Right Yourself as Best You May': Voicing Tragedy in David Mitchell's Libretti -- Building the sand mandala -- David Mitchell's libretti in performance -- Rebirth in David Mitchell's libretti -- 'I'd make more sense in Sanskrit, or better yet, Tibetan' -- 'Honour us, by living fully' -- The sand mandala as Gesamtkunstwerk -- Staging David Mitchell's libretti -- 'When remembered, we exist' -- Chapter 3: 'Looking Down Time's Telescope at Myself': Reincarnation and Global Futures in David Mitchell's Fictional Worlds -- 'Time's telescope' and reincarnation -- 'Reincarnation time' and transmigration -- 'Treading on spirals': Reincarnation in the macronovel -- 'Being born's a hell of a lottery': Marinus and the role of the bodhisattva -- 'Reincarnation time' and the Anthropocene -- Chapter 4: 'What a Sick Zoo': Escaping the Panopticon in David Mitchell's Macronovel -- The mandala as political paradigm