Michael Ondaatje / / Lee Spinks

• Autore: Spinks Lee <1963->
• Pubblicazione: Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2013; ©2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (296 pages) : digital file(s)
• Disciplina: 813.54
• Soggetto topico: Literature; Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers; LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic; India
• Soggetto non controllato: Billy the Kid; Coming Through Slaughter; English Patient; Michael Ondaatje; Skin of Lion; intertexts; poet; poetics of postmodernism; postcolonial literature; postcolonial theory
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contexts and intertexts -- The early poems -- The collected works of Billy the Kid -- Coming through slaughter -- Running in the family -- In the skin of a lion -- The English patient -- Anil's ghost -- Critical overview and conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: Michael Ondaatje is the first comprehensive and fully up-to-date study of Ondaatje's entire oeuvre. Starting from Ondaatje's beginnings as a poet, this volume offers an intensive account of each of his major publications, including The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, Coming Through Slaughter, In The Skin of a Lion and The English Patient, drawing attention to the various contexts and intertexts that have informed his work.The book contains a broad overview of Ondaatje's career for students and readers coming to his work for the first time. It also offers an original reading of his writing wh
• Titolo autorizzato: Michael Ondaatje
• ISBN: 1-84779-585-4; 1-78170-311-6; 1-84779-347-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910791953703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Contemporary World Writers