Stranger Gods : Salman Rushdie's Other Worlds.
Clark, Roger Y.
Stranger Gods : Salman Rushdie's Other Worlds. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (249 pages)
In Stranger Gods Roger Clark offers an ambitious and wide-ranging study of Salman Rushdie's seven published novels, with a special focus on his earliest, Grimus, and his most powerful and provocative, Midnight's Children, Shame, and The Satanic Verses. Clark shows how Rushdie employs cosmology, mythology, and mysticism to structure otherworldly dramas that are fascinating in their own right, as well as crucial to the more worldly points Rushdie makes about literary tradition, history, ethnicity, and the politics of religion.
9780773568808
Rushdie, Salman-Criticism and interpretation.
Cosmology in literature.
Fantasy fiction, English-History and criticism.
Mysticism in literature.
Mythology in literature.
Religion in literature.
Supernatural in literature.
Electronic books.
PR6068.U757 Z59 2001
823/.914
Stranger Gods : Salman Rushdie's Other Worlds. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (249 pages)
In Stranger Gods Roger Clark offers an ambitious and wide-ranging study of Salman Rushdie's seven published novels, with a special focus on his earliest, Grimus, and his most powerful and provocative, Midnight's Children, Shame, and The Satanic Verses. Clark shows how Rushdie employs cosmology, mythology, and mysticism to structure otherworldly dramas that are fascinating in their own right, as well as crucial to the more worldly points Rushdie makes about literary tradition, history, ethnicity, and the politics of religion.
9780773568808
Rushdie, Salman-Criticism and interpretation.
Cosmology in literature.
Fantasy fiction, English-History and criticism.
Mysticism in literature.
Mythology in literature.
Religion in literature.
Supernatural in literature.
Electronic books.
PR6068.U757 Z59 2001
823/.914