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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. Clark's exploration of Rushdie's novels works on at least three levels. First, he clarifies and interprets Rushdie's often puzzling references to figures such as Loki and Shiva, settings such as the mountains of Qaf and Kailasa, and experiences such as the annihilation of the self and the temptations of the Muslim Devil, Iblis. Second, he demonstrates how otherworldy motifs work with or against each other, fusing or clashing with Dantean, Shakespearean, and other literary forms to create hybrid characters, plots, and themes. Finally, he argues that Rushdie's brutal assault on tradition and taboo is mitigated by his secular idealism and his subtle homage to mystical ideals of the past. This novel interpretation, which presents Rushdie's first five novels as a heterogeneous yet consistent body of work, will challenge and delight not only Rushdie scholars but anyone interested in comparative religion and mythology, iconoclasm, and the interplay of Western and Eastern literary forms.

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Zaradenie knihy Knihy po anglicky Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Celý názov: Stranger Gods
• Podnázov: Salman Rushdie's Other Worlds
• Autor: Roger Clark
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Väzba: Brožovaná
• Počet strán: 224
• EAN: 9780773521933
• ISBN: 0773521933
• ID: 04917906
• Nakladateľ: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Hmotnosť: 381 g
• Rozmery: 226 × 152 × 19 mm
• Dátum vydania: 06. December 2001

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