Discourse analysis as sociocriticism : the Spanish Golden Age / Antonio Gomez-Moriana.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gomez-Moriana, Antonio.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish literature--Classical period, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

Spanish literature.

Discourse analysis, Literary.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (189 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Gómez-Moriana applies contemporary literary theory to classical texts of the Spanish Golden Age, including Lazirillo de Tormes, Don Quijote, Tirso de Molina's Don Juan play, and Columbus's Diary.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Introduction: Semiotics and Philology in Text Analysis; Chapter 1 The Subversion of Ritual Discourse: An Intertextual Reading of Lazarillo de Tormes; Chapter 2 Intertextuality, Interdiscursiveness, and Parody: On the Origins of the Narrative Form in the Picaresque Novel; Chapter 3 Autobiography and Ritual Discourse: The Autobiographical Confession before the Inquisition; Chapter 4 Narration and Argumentation in Autobiographical Discourse; Chapter 5 Evocation as a Literary Procedure in Don Quijote

Chapter 6 Discourse Pragmatics and Reciprocity of Perspectives: The Promises of Juan Haldudo (Don Quijote 1,4) and of Don Juan; Chapter 7 The Antimodernization of Spain; Chapter 8 Narration and Argumentation in the Chronicles of the New World; Chapter 9 The Emerging of a Discursive Instance: Columbus and the Invention of the ""Indian""; Chapter 10 The (Relative) Autonomy of Artistic Expression: Bakhtin and Adorno; Epilogue; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-172) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8432-4

OCLC:

476093238