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Western Cultural Symbols in Latin American and Chicano Literature : an Historical and Semiotic Analysis.
This book explains the fundamentals of semiotic theory (the study of signs), and applies it to more than twenty works by a dozen Latin American and Mexican American authors. Using a post-modernist interpretation of signs, Breining makes the point that there exists a relationship of the privileged an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lewiston :
Edwin Mellen Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book explains the fundamentals of semiotic theory (the study of signs), and applies it to more than twenty works by a dozen Latin American and Mexican American authors. Using a post-modernist interpretation of signs, Breining makes the point that there exists a relationship of the privileged and disenfranchised within Latin America and Chicano literature. Covering a span of more than five hundred years, from pre-Hispanic times to the late twentieth century, Breining demonstrates how the signs found with the literature of each period of Latin American history, define social interactions, c. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (296 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-267) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780773429468 0773429468 |