Salman Rushdie: The Essential Guide

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Random House, May 31, 2012 - Study Aids - 208 pages

In Vintage Living Texts, teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of Salman Rushdie. Vintage Living Texts is unique in that it offers an in-depth interview with Salman Rushdie, relating specifically to the texts under discussion. This guide deals with Rushdie's themes, genre and narrative technique,and a close reading of the texts will provide a rich source of ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels.

Also included in this guide are detailed reading plans for all three novels, questions for essay and discussion, contextual material, suggested texts for complementary and comparative reading, extracts from reviews, a biography, a bibliography and a glossary of literary terms.

Texts covered: Midnight's Children, Shame and The Satanic Verses.

Whether a teacher, student or general reader, the Vintage Living Texts series gives you the chance to explore new resources and enjoy new pleasures.

 

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Contents

About the Book
Midnights Children
Contexts comparisons and complementary readings

Common terms and phrases

allusion ANALYSE angel ASSESS attitude Bollywood Bombay Chamcha CHAPTER 1 SECTIONS character characterisation chutney colour connect Consider context cultural described DISCUSSION OR ESSAYS English example fact fairy tales fantastic father fiction film Focus Gibreel glossary of literary happens hero idea identity Imaginary Homelands India kind language legend literary terms literature Little Dorrit London LOOK BACK magic realism Margaret Reynolds Martin Amis mean metaphor Midnight's Children N. J. Dawood narrative structure narrator Note novel Omar Padma Pakistan passage phrases pilgrimage plot poetry QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION reader Reading activities Reading guides references relation relationship RESEARCH AND COMPARE revelation role Rushdie's Saladin Salman Rushdie Satanic Verses SECTIONS 1-3 sense Shame significance story storytelling Sufiya Zinobia suggest technique tell theme things thought told V. S. Naipaul VINTAGE LIVING TEXTS voice whole women words writing

About the author (2012)

The Series Editors of Vintage Living Texts have, between them, more than thirty years teaching experience at senior school and undergraduate level. Their association with Vintage - and with the Vintage authors - guarantees a series that is lively and informative and fun.

Bibliographic information

TitleSalman Rushdie: The Essential Guide
Volume 11 of Vintage Living Texts
AuthorsJonathan Noakes, Margaret Reynolds
PublisherRandom House, 2012
ISBN1448138957, 9781448138951
Length208 pages
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Literary Criticism / Asian / Indic
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / Reference
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