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Salman Rushdie.
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | Contemporary world writers.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.