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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Universidad de Zaragoza: Departamento de Filología Inglesa y Alemana
1992
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