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Reading 'La Regenta' : Duplicitous discourse and the entropy of structure.

Criticism of La Regenta has until recently focused on the text's plot as an extraordinarily coherent and convincing fictional world. Stephanie A. Sieburth demonstrates that the devices which produce order in the text are counterbalanced by an equally strong tendency toward entropy of meaning. T...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sieburth, Stephanie A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1990.
Colección:Purdue University monographs in Romance languages ; v. 29.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • READINGLAREGENTADuplicitous Discourse and the Entropy of Structure; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction La Regentaand Its Critics: From Representation to Reflexivity; Part I. NarratorialSeduction and La Regenta's Critique of Language; 1. Vetustan Discourse: The Destruction of the Sign; 2. The Narrator's Discourse: Seduction and Ambivalence; 3. Narrator and Protagonist: The Struggle for Authority; 4. The Narrator and the Classics: The Creation of the Implied Reader.
  • 5. The Narrator's Metaphorical System: The Model of the World in La RegentaPart II. Structure and Entropy: Intertextuality and Self-Reflection in La Regenta; 6. Intertextuality: La Regenta's Quixotic Structure; 7. Self-Reflection and the Subversion of Unity; 8. Fragmentation and Madness: Ana as a Figure of Textual Structure; Notes; Bibliography.