The Architecture of Imagery in Alberto Moravia's Fiction by Janice M. Kozma.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kozma, Janice M.

Series:

North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures ; Number 244.

North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures ; Number 244

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Moravia, Alberto, 1907-1990--Literary style.

Italian language--Figures of speech.

Italian language.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (129 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : U.N.C. Dept. of Romance Languages, 1993.

Summary:

Kozma examines the use of metaphor and simile in the works of the twentieth-century Italian fiction writer Alberto Moravia, whose novels include Gli indifferenti (1929) and La romana (1947).

Contents:

Cover

THE ARCHITECTURE OF IMAGERY IN ALBERTO MORAVIA'S FICTION

Title

Copyright

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I. INTRODUCTION

II. DISCRETE IMAGERY

III. SEEMINGLY DISCRETE IMAGERY

IV. SIMPLE ORCHESTRATION OF IMAGERY

V. COMPLEX ORCHESTRATION OF IMAGERY

VI. CONCLUSIONS

APPENDICES

Appendix A: List of Categories

Imagery of Women

Imagery of Men

Abstract Imagery

War Imagery

Concrete Imagery

Natural/Physical Imagery

Imagery of Architecture

Imagery of Machines

Erotic Imagery

Imagery of the Human Body

Imagery of Food

Appendix B: Moravia's Prose Works

WORKS CITED

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [118]) and index.

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ISBN:

1-4696-4267-0

OCLC:

1080550117