Foregrounded Description in Prose Fiction : : Five Cross-Literary Studies / / José Lopes.
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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©1995 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Theory / Culture
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (196 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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