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Reading La regenta : duplicitous discourse and the entropy of structure / Stephanie A. Sieburth.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sieburth, Stephanie.
- Series:
- Purdue University monographs in Romance languages ; 29.
- Purdue University monographs in Romance languages, 0165-8743 ; v. 29
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Alas, Leopoldo, 1852-1901. Regenta.
- Alas, Leopoldo.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (134 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1990.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Criticism of La Regenta has until recently focused on the text's plot as an extraordinarily coherent and convincing fictional world. Stephanie A. Sieburth demonstrates that the devices which produce order in the text are counterbalanced by an equally strong tendency toward entropy of meaning. The narrator is shown to be duplicitous and unreliable in his judgments on characters and events. Without an omniscient narrator, readers must interpret for themselves the complex intertextual structure of the novel. Saints' lives, honor plays, and serial novels each provide partial reflections of Ana Ozo
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Narratorial seduction and La regenta 's critique of language
- pt. 2. Structure and entropy : intertextuality and self-reflection in La regenta.
- Notes:
- Originally presented as the author's thesis (Princeton University).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-127).
- ISBN:
- 1-283-35872-7
- 9786613358721
- 90-272-7817-2
- OCLC:
- 769342233
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