Salman Rushdie: The Essential Guide to Contemporary Literature

Author: Noakes, Jonathan,Reynolds, Margaret
Publisher: Vintage UK
Category: Literary Studies: General, Literary Studies: From C 1900 -, Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers, Literary Reference Works
Age Group: 15+
Book Format: Paperback

One of a series introducing some of the most exciting works in contemporary fiction. This volume deals with the themes, genre and narrative techniques employed by Salman Rushdie in Midnight's Children, Shame and The Satanic Verses. It also features an interview with the author, detailed reading plans, questions for essays and discussion, contextual materials, suggested texts for complementary and comparative reading, a picture essay, extracts from reviews, a biography, and a reading list of literary criticism.

About Jonathan Noakes
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. Margaret Reynolds is a writer, academic, critic and broadcaster. Her critical edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh won the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay prize. Other books include The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories, The Sappho Companion, Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology (with Angela Leighton) and a series of study guides on contemporary writers, Vintage Living Texts. She is Professor of English at Queen Mary, University of London and a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. She is the presenter of BBC Radio 4's long running 'Adventures in Poetry'.

(BK-9780099437642)

SKU BK-9780099437642
Barcode # 9780099437642
Brand Vintage UK
Artist / Author Noakes, Jonathan, Reynolds, Margaret
Shipping Weight 0.1600kg
Shipping Width 0.160m
Shipping Height 0.010m
Shipping Length 0.200m
Assembled Length 16.300m
Assembled Height 19.600m
Assembled Width 1.400m
Type Paperback

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