Interiors and narrative : the spatial poetics of Machado De Assis, Eça de Queirós, and Leopoldo Alas /

This comparative study is the first to bring together three of the most important writers of the Luso-Hispanic 19th century: Machado de Assis (Brazil), Eça de Queirós (Portugal), and Leopoldo Alas (Spain). It offers new readings of their well-known masterpieces, while uncovering a novel literary a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Vieira, Estela, 1975-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Lewisburg, Pennsylvania] : Bucknell University Press, [2013]
Colección:Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory.
Temas:
Machado de Assis, > 1839-1908 > Criticism and interpretation.
Queirós, Eça de, > 1845-1900 > Criticism and interpretation.
Alas, Leopoldo, > 1852-1901 > Criticism and interpretation.
Alas, Leopoldo, > 1852-1901
Machado de Assis, > 1839-1908
Queirós, Eça de, > 1845-1900
1800-1899
Latin American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Spanish literature > Foreign countries > History and criticism.
Interior architecture > In literature.
Architecture and literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Roman latino-américain > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Architecture intérieure > Dans la littérature.
Architecture et littérature.
Narration.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Caribbean & Latin American.
Architecture and literature
Latin American fiction
Spanish literature > Foreign countries
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Interiors and narrative
  • The novel's sense of the interior
  • The novelist's sense of the interior
  • Furnishing the novel
  • The threshold: The ins and outs of Quincas Borba
  • Movables and immovables: the legend of the Maias
  • The corners of the world: inside La Regenta
  • Interiors and interiority
  • Inside the minds and hearts of Machado's characters
  • Eça's interior decorators
  • Memory and movement: Ana's and Fermín's interiors
  • The discourse of interiors
  • Machado's minimalism and the meaning of things
  • The narrative life of Eça's furnishings
  • The dramatic effect of Clarín's interior architecture
  • Epilogue: from Voltaire's garden to Galdós's rooms.

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