Salman Rushdie.

By:

Teverson, Andrew

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Contemporary world writersPublication details: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2007.Description: 1 online resource (278 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781847791948
1847791948
9781781701225
1781701229
9781847796219
1847796214

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Salman Rushdie.DDC classification:

823.914

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PR6068.U757

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Contents:

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.

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Summary: 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.

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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.

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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-254) and index.

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