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The semiotics of a bourgeois society : an analysis of the Aguafuertes porteñas by Roberto Arlt / Victoria Martinez.
Van Pelt Library PQ7797.A66 A64736 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Martinez, Victoria (Victoria Jeanne)
- Series:
- Scripta Humanistica (Series) ; 132.
- Scripta Humanistica ; 132
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arlt, Roberto, 1900-1942. Aguafuertes porteñas.
- Arlt, Roberto.
- Arlt, Roberto, 1900-1942.
- Technique.
- Buenos Aires (Argentina)--Social life and customs.
- Buenos Aires (Argentina).
- Arlt, Roberto, 1900-1942--Technique.
- Semiotics and literature.
- Physical Description:
- 198 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Potomac, Md. : Scripta Humanistica, [1997]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 General Characteristics of the Aguafuertes Portenas 8
- 1.1 Reflections of Buenos Aires 8
- 1.2 Setting 11
- 1.3 Characters 14
- 1.4 Narrative Structure 20
- Chapter 2 The Language of the Essays 28
- 2.1 Implied Versus Real Author 28
- 2.2 The Serio-comic Nature of the Essays 34
- 2.3 Multivoiced Narrative 39
- 2.4 Examples of Variations in Voice 42
- 2.5 Conversations 46
- Chapter 3 Utterances and the Lexicon 52
- 3.1 Cultural Codes 52
- 3.2 The Speech Act 55
- 3.3 The Lexicon 67
- Chapter 4 Oppositions Produced by Class Struggle 73
- 4.1 Markedness 73
- 4.2 Power and Solidarity 78
- Chapter 5 Courtship, Marriage, and the Role of the Female 99.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-128).
- ISBN:
- 1882528220
- OCLC:
- 41267768
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