Refunctionalising the past: Salman Rushdie's rewriting of eighteeth-century novelistic conventions in Midnight's Children

Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children consciously "works" with the conventions used by eighteenth-century writers of fictional autobiographies, such as Defoe, giving them new life and a parodic function. The attempt to undermine a coherent, stable view of the self and of society is paralleled b...

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Main Author: de Juan Hatchard, Luis
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidad de Zaragoza: Departamento de Filología Inglesa y Alemana 1992
Online Access:https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=193693
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