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Salman Rushdie [[electronic resource]]



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Autore: Teverson Andrew Visualizza persona
Titolo: Salman Rushdie [[electronic resource]] Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2007
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (278 p.)
Disciplina: 823.914
Soggetto topico: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Soggetto non controllato: British literature
Grimus
Salman Rushdie
Shalimar the Clown
controversialist
global politics
novelist
novels
politicised fiction
postcolonial studies
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
Titolo autorizzato: Salman Rushdie  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-78170-122-9
1-84779-194-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910791951103321
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Serie: Contemporary World Writers