Joel Kuortti's "Fictions to Live In" is a study of Rushdie's six novels to date: "Grimus, Midnight's Children, Shame, The Satanic Verses, Haroun and the Sea of Stories" and "The Moor's Last Sigh." By analysing each of these individual texts, the present work aims at an evaluation of the status of fiction in these novels. It illustrates how one of the major implications of Rushdie's works is the argument for the centrality of fiction in human societies; that there is, in a way, an argument for fiction as an epistemology and, finally, an ethics. An argument for an ethics which seems to bring forth a third possibility, that which is both-and.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Lang Publishing, Incorporated, Peter
ISBN-10
3631338740
ISBN-13
9783631338742
eBay Product ID (ePID)
43921710
Product Key Features
Author
Joel Kuortti
Publication Name
Fictions to Live in : Narration As an Argument for Fiction in Salman Rushdie's Novels
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Type
Language Course
Number of Pages
267 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.3in
Item Width
5.8in
Item Weight
12.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Table of Content
Contents: Evaluation of the status of fiction in the novels of Salman Rushdie - Centrality of fiction in human societies - Fiction as an epistemology - Fiction as an ethics.
Topic
Miscellaneous, General, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Foreign Language Study, Literary Criticism, History