Refracting the Canon in Contemporary British Literature and Film (Postmodern Studies 35) (Postmodern Studies)
Contributors: Susana Onega (Editor); Christian Gutleben (Editor)
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: May 2004
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9789042010505
Subjects: Film theory & criticism; Literature: History & Criticism; Postmodernism; United Kingdom, Great Britain
First sentence: The incipit of Midnight's Children, with its tale of a "clock-ridden birth" and its ironically orientalised portrayal of the midnight hour ("blandly saluting clocks", "clock-hands join[ing] palms in respectful greeting", Rushdie 1982: 9) is a hybrid creation and an implicit homage paid to Laurence Sterne: it is an Indian appropriation of the famously "clock-ridden" opening chapters of Tristram Shandy.