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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791951103321

Autore

Teverson Andrew

Titolo

Salman Rushdie [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-78170-122-9

1-84779-194-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 p.)

Collana

Contemporary World Writers

Disciplina

823.914

Soggetti

LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

9780719070501; 9780719070501; Copyright; Contents; Series editor's foreword; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Chronology; PART I Contexts and intertexts; 1 Introduction; 2 Political and intellectual contexts; 3 Writing in English; 4 Intertextuality, influence and the postmodern; 5 Biographical contexts; PART II Novels and criticism; 6 From science fiction to history: Grimus and Midnight's Children; 7 Tragedy in Shame; 8 Satire in The Satanic Verses; 9 Pessoptimistic fictions:Haroun and the Sea of Stories and The Moor's Last Sigh

10 The pop novel in the age of globalisation:The Ground Beneath Her Feet and Fury11 Critical overview and conclusion; AFTERWORD: Shalimar the Clown; Notes; Select bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Salman Rushdie is one of the world's most important writers of politicised fiction. He is a self-proclaimed controversialist, capable of exciting radically divergent viewpoints, a novelist of extraordinary imaginative range and power, and an erudite, and often fearless, commentator upon the state of global politics today. In this comprehensive and lucid critical study, Andrew Teverson examines the intellectual, biographical, literary and cultural contexts from which Rushdie's fiction springs in order to help the reader make sense of the often complex debates that surround the life and work of