Foregrounded Description in Prose Fiction : Five Cross-Literary Studies /

In this wide-ranging study, José Manuel Lopes proposes a theoretical framework for analysing the role of description in prose fiction. He offers readings of texts drawn from four national literatures-French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Brazilian-testing his model across a cultural and temporal spectrum...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lopes, José (Autor)
Otros Autores: Krysinski, Wladimir (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
Colección:Theory / Culture
Temas:
Description (Rhetoric).
Narration (Rhetoric).
Romance-language fiction > History and criticism.
Structuralism (Literary analysis).
LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • I. Towards a framework for the analysis of description in prose fiction
  • II. Description and mise en abyme in Zola's line Page d'amour
  • III. Reading of visual images and postcard descriptions in Claude Simon's Histoire
  • IV. The sarcastic descriptor: Satire and parody in Benito Perez Galdos' La de Bringas
  • V. Description and modes of representation in Cornelio Penna's A Menina Morta
  • VI. The impossible 'mimesis': Description and metadescription in Carlos de Oliveira's Finisterra
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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