Salman Rushdie : a Deleuzian reading / Søren Frank.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frank, Søren.

Standardized Title:

Salman Rushdies kartografi. English

Language:

Danish

English

Subjects (All):

Rushdie, Salman--Criticism and interpretation.

Rushdie, Salman.

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.

Deleuze, Gilles.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

286 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Copenhagen : Museum Tusculanum Press : University of Copenhagen, 2011.

Summary:

Frank (comparative literature, U. of Southern Denmark) sees an intellectual affinity between novelist Salman Rushdie and philosopher Gilles Deleuze in world-view, art, and subjectivity and therefore finds Deleuze to offer a valuable conceptual apparatus for reading the poetics and aesthetics of Rushdie's writings. He presents a description of Deleuze's literary theory, focusing on the concepts of simulacrum and rhizome, and conducts readings of Rushdie's novels Grimus, Midnight's Children, Shame, The Satanic Verses, and The Ground Beneath Her Feet based on the Deleuzian theory. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Prologue: Grimus

Deleuze and literature

Rushdie's cartography. Rushdie's cartography: 1981-1988 ; Composition and enunciation ; Human identity ; Metaphor and metonymy ; Toward a minor literature ; Historiography metafiction ; The openness of totality

Epilogue: The ground beneath her feet.

Notes:

"Originally published in Danish as Salman Rushdies kartografi, 2003. Revised by the author and translated by Sten Pultz Moslund." --T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

8763531097

9788763531092

OCLC:

466359726

Publisher Number:

99944995864