Idioms in Salman Rushdie's Novels: A Phraseo-Stylistic Approach

ISBN-13: 9783631637401 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 293 str.

Grzegorz Szpila

Opis

This book explores the use of idioms in Salman Rushdie s eleven novels. Firstly, the key concepts in phraseology are discussed as a background to the study of Rushdie s idiomaticity. Salman Rushdie is presented as a metaphorical and phraseological writer before the main tenets of phraseo-stylistics are addressed. Then the physical presence of idiomatic expressions in Salman Rushdie s novels is examined and, finally, through close readings and textual analyses of Salman Rushdie s works, the functionality of idioms employed by the author in his prosaic works is determined. This study establishes Salman Rushdie s prose as highly idiomatic and the author as exceptionally creative when it comes to the deployment of idioms in literary texts."

Spis treści

Contents: Phraseology- Idioms - Salman Rushdie novels - Stylistcs - Phraseo-stylistics.

O autorze

Grzegorz Szpila is a lecturer and researcher at the Institute of English Philology at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. He specialises in phraseology and paremiology, and in particular, the phraseo-stylistics of contemporary fiction in English.