Andrew Teverson

Salman Rushdie

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 this major contemporary figure.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 299g
• ISBN-13: 9780719070518
• ISBN-10: 0719070511
• Artikelnr.: 22703450

Autorenporträt

Andrew Teverson is Lecturer in English Literature at Kingston University

Inhaltsangabe

1. Contexts and intertexts 2. From science fiction to history: Grimus and
Midnight's Children 3. Tragedy in Shame 4. Satire in The Satanic Verses 5.
Pessoptimistic fictions: Haroun and the Sea of Stories and The Moor's Last
Sigh 6. The pop novel in the age of globalisation: The Ground Beneath Her
Feet and Fury 7. Critical overview and conclusion Afterword: Shalimar the
Clown