Thesis (M.A.) -- Central Connecticut State University, 2010. / Thesis advisor: Aimee Pozorski. "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Art in English Literature." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 88-89). Also available via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print.

This work examines the fiction of Salman Rushdie--Grimus, Midnight's Children, Shame and The Satanic Verses, and its complex narrative structure. Fictional narrative is discussed in terms of structuralist theory using studies by Mieke Bal, Seymour Chatman and Gerald Prince. Historical narrative is analyzed through the writings of the philosophers of history, Hayden White, Louis O. Mink and Paul Ricoeur. These theories are applied to the fiction of Salman Rushdie in order to investigate his use of narrative. It is concluded that he uses a combination of historical and fictional narrative in order to explode existing 'truths' and mythologies, and to suggest alternative realities in their place.

This thesis argues that the shortcomings of modernist liberal defences of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses have helped to draw debate over the book into a stalemate. It also attempts to demonstrate how aspects of this stalemate might be broken. Chapter One contains a brief philosophical survey of the debate, juxtaposing the framework relativism propounded by Rushdie and many of his advocates with the absolutism of Rushdie's Muslim detractors. The chapter closes with an analysis of the contradictions present in Rushdie's relativistic defence of his novel. / Chapter Two opens with a short argument against existing blasphemy laws. The philosophical sketches in Chapter One are applied to the contents of the novel itself, producing an outline of the contending views of "literary contest" and "authorial intention" held by the two sides in the debate, and illuminating Rushdie's apparent confusion about the purposes of his novel. / Chapter Three proposes a solution--based on philosopher Alasdair McIntyre's thought--to defects in modernist liberal defences of The Satanic Verses.

University, Diss., 2006--Heidelberg. / Erscheinungsjahr an der Haupttitelstelle: 2005.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Virginia, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 293-318). Also available online through Digital Dissertations.

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La figure du migrant est centrale dans l’œuvre de Salman Rushdie. Noyau d’un dispositif narratif, rhétorique, philosophique et métaphysique, elle organise une vision du monde orientée par ce qu’Edouard Glissant nomme le « nomadisme circulaire ». Dans ce monde baroque, instable et chancelant, le vacillement est maintenu par la convergence du centre et de la périphérie, qui deviennent deux formes du bord. Le transport est le nom que le grec donne à la métaphore : chez Salman Rushdie, c’est aussi le migrant. Figure de rhétorique, la métaphore relève d’un mode fondé sur la substitution et la rupture, d’après David Lodge, avec Jakobson. Inséparable de la métonymie, dont le mode est associé à la combinaison et la contiguïté, elle donne forme verbale et énergie à la puissance évocatrice et imaginatrice qui se manifeste dans les romans de Salman Rushdie. Cette énergie se fait véhicule d’un conatus centrifuge qui attire l’écriture vers les marges. Le bord s’inscrit dans la dialectique de la continuité et de la discontinuité en tant qu’il est commencement et fin. Il s’incarne dans le corps, dans divers lieux métaphoriques et poétiques, et dans des personnages appartenant tous à un entre-deux, à une réalité hybride qui favorise le basculement et le désordre. Cette thèse analysera dans quelle mesure les avatars du bord géographique, rhétorique et sémantique font prospérer une écriture génératrice d’une prolifération de sens et d’une poétique au cœur de laquelle la recherche de la « métaphore vive » [chère à Paul Ricoeur] participe d’un vertige des marges]. / The figure of the migrant is central in the work of Salman Rushdie. It is the fulcrum of a narratological, rhetorical, philosophical and metaphysical compound articulating a Weltanschauung oriented by what Edouard Glissant calls « circular nomadism ». In this unstable and unpoised baroque world, oscillation is maintained thanks to the convergence of the centre and the periphery, which become two versions of the edge. Transport is the name that the Greek language gives to metaphor: for Salman Rushdie, it is also the migrant. Metaphor, a rhetorical figure, derives from a mode founded upon substitution and rupture, according to David Lodge, after Jakobson. It is inseparable from metonymy, whose mode is associated with combination and contiguity, and it gives verbal shape and energy to the conjuring and evoking power which manifests itself in Salman Rushdie’s novels. This energy becomes the vehicle of a centrifugal conatus which draws the wr! iting towards the edge. The limit inscribes itself in the dialectics of continuity and discontinuity in so far as it is the beginning and the end. It is embedded in the body, in various metaphorical and poetic places, and in characters belonging to an intermediate space, to a hybrid reality where desequilibrium and disorder are rife. This thesis will analyse to what extent the avatars of the limit, be it geographical, rhetorical or semantic, create a bedrock in which this style can prosper. Generating a proliferation of meaning and forwarded by a poetics at the heart of which is the search for the « living power of metaphoricity », as suggested by Ricœur, it participates in a vertigo in the margins.