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[null,"1.","Record Nr.",null,"UNINA9910819600103321"]
[null,null,"Autore",null,"Thieme John"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"R. K. Narayan / / John Thieme"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2013"]
[{"$nulls":4},"©2007"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"1-84779-536-6"]
[{"$nulls":4},"1-78170-124-5"]
[{"$nulls":4},"1-84779-196-4"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (249 pages) : digital file(s)"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"Contemporary world writers"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"823.912"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Literature"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Literary Studies: Post-Colonial Literature"]
[{"$nulls":4},"LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic"]
[{"$nulls":4},"India"]
[{"$nulls":4},"India In literature"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Description based upon print version of record."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; SERIES EDITOR'S FOREWORD; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; CHRONOLOGY; 1 Contexts and intertexts; 2 Early novels; 3 Middle-period novels: Mr Sampath to Waiting for the Mahatma; 4 Middle-period novels: The Guide to The Painter of Signs; 5 Late novels; 6 Critical overview and conclusion; NOTES; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y"]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","R.K. Narayan's reputation as one of the founding figures of Indian writing in English is re-examined in this comprehensive study of his fiction, which offers detailed readings of all his novels. Arguing against views that have seen Narayan as a chronicler of \"authentic\" Indianness, John Thieme locates his fiction in terms of its specific South Indian contexts and cultural geography and its non-Indian intertexts. The study also considers the effect that Narayan's writing for overseas publication had on novels such as Swami and Friends, The Guide and The Man-Eater of Malgudi.Narayan's imaginary"]