Idioms in Salman Rushdie's Novels

The series "Text - Meaning - Context: Cracow Studies in English Language, Literature and Culture" aims at bringing together the long-divorced disciplines of the study of language, literature and culture by inviting scholars working in each of these areas to consider the unique implications of their own field in a larger epistemic context. The interdisciplinary approach of volumes in the series should allow to develop a scholarly discourse which affords a comprehensive picture of English studies.

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.

Autorentext

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.

Klappentext

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.

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