Re-Writing the City: Postmodern Observing in the Imaginary Londons of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses and Iain Sinclair's Downriver
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Salman Rushdie, Iain Sinclair, Postmodernism, Urban AestheticsAbstract
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