Annotating Salman Rushdie - Mishra, Vijay

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Auteur(s) : Mishra, Vijay

Editeur : Routledge India

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/05/2018

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 392.0

Expédition : 599

Dimensions : 21.6 x 14.0 x 2.5

ISBN : 9780815382089

Résumé :

This book looks at ways of reading, uncovering and recovering meanings in postcolonial writing in English through the works of Salman Rushdie. It uses textual criticism and applied literary theory to resurrect the underlying literary architecture of one of the world's most controversial, celebrated and enigmatic authors. It sheds light upon key aspects of Rushdie's craft and the literary influences that contribute to his celebrated hybridity. It analyses how Rushdie uses his exceptional mastery of European, Anglo-American, Indian, Arabic and Persian literary and cultural forms to cultivate a fresh register of English that expands Western literary traditions.

Biographie:

Vijay Mishra is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia. He has two doctorates, the first in Medieval Indian Poetry and Aesthetics from the Australian National University, and the second in Eighteenth-Century English Literature from Oxford University. Between 2010 and 2015 he was an Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow. In 2017 he was awarded another Australian Research Council Discovery Grant to write a book on V. S. Naipaul based on the University of Tulsa Naipaul Archive. At various times he has been Professor of English Literature, University of Alberta, Canada; Senior Fellow, University of Wales; Professorial Fellow, University of California Santa Cruz; Robert Evans Fellow, University of Otago; Visiting Professor of English, Universit?t des Saarlandes; Professorial Fellow, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University; Christensen Professorial Fellow, St Catherine's College, Oxford; and Erich Auerbach Professor of Global Literary Studies, University of T?bingen. Fluent in English, Hindi, Fijian and Fiji Hindi, he reads Sanskrit, Old and Middle English, French and German. He has been the Chair of the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards and of the S. E. Asian and Australasian Section of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Among his major book publications are Dark Side of the Dream: Australian Literature and the Postcolonial Mind (1991, with Bob Hodge); The Gothic Sublime (1994); Devotional Poetics and the Indian Sublime (1998); Bollywood Cinema: Temples of Desire (2002); The Literature of the Indian Diaspora: Theorizing the Diasporic Imaginary (2007); and What Was Multiculturalism? A Critical Retrospective (2012). He is a Fellow of the Australian Humanities Academy (FAHA).

Sommaire:

Acknowledgments Prologue Introduction: Scribes Scholars and Annotations Part I Annotating Salman Rushdie Part II Rushdie Annotations: The Classic Corpus Bibliography. Index