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

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In this wide-ranging study, Jose 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 spec...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lopes, Jose Manuel (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Electronic Library, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Structuralism (Literary analysis)
Romance-language fiction.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Description (Rhetoric)
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
descriptive note.
descriptions (documents)
Structuralisme (Analyse litteraire)
Narration.
Roman en langues romanes > Histoire et critique.
Discours descriptif.
Roman en langues romanes > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Roman en langues romanes > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Romance-language fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Romance-language fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Romance-language fiction > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I. Towards a framework for the analysis of description in prose fiction
  • II. Description and mise en abyme in Zola's Une 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.

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