Foregrounded description in prose fiction : five cross-literary studies / José Manuel Lopes.
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- Language:
- English
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- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (196 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 1995.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 spectrum.
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- 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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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
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- 1-4426-5580-1
- 1-4426-2324-1
- OCLC:
- 905361895
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