Treatment of fantasy and realist sections in Alasdair Gray's "Lanark" and Salmon Rushdie's "Midnight's Children"

The goal of this paper is to juxtapose and compare two fictional works, Gray’ s Lanark and Rushdie’ s Midnight’ s Children, as works that exploit the same or similar textual strategies – oscillation between realist and fantasy sections – but are cons...

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Matična publikacija: Studia romanica et anglica zagrabiensia
47/48 (2003-04), str. 401-412
Glavni autor: Polak, Iva (-)
Vrsta građe: Članak
Jezik: eng
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