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Interiors and narrative : the spatial poetics of Machado De Assis, Eca de Queiros, and Leopoldo Alas / Estela Vieira.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vieira, Estela, 1975-
- Series:
- Interiors and Narrative
- Buknell University Press Latin American Studies Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Latin American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- Latin American fiction.
- Spanish literature--Foreign countries--History and criticism.
- Spanish literature.
- Interior architecture in literature.
- Architecture and literature.
- Narration (Rhetoric).
- Machado de Assis, 1839-1908--Criticism and interpretation.
- Machado de Assis.
- Queirós, Eça de, 1845-1900--Criticism and interpretation.
- Queirós, Eça de.
- Alas, Leopoldo, 1852-1901--Criticism and interpretation.
- Alas, Leopoldo.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (263 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. ; Plymouth, England : Bucknell University Press, c2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This comparative study is the first to bring together three of the most important writers of the Luso-Hispanic 19th century: Machado de Assis (Brazil), Eça de Queirós (Portugal), and Leopoldo Alas (Spain). It offers new readings of their well-known masterpieces, while uncovering a novel literary and political significance of the interior space in realist fiction. his is the first full-length study to juxtapose three renowned writers of the less known but incredibly important Luso-Brazilian and Spanish literary traditions while at the same time dealing with a thematic concern
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Interiors and Narrative; Part One: Furnishing the Novel; Part Two: Interiors and Interiority; Part Three: The Discourse of Interiors; Epilogue: From Voltaire's Garden to Galdós's Rooms; Works Cited; Index; About the Author
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed September 10, 2013).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-35610-3
- 1-61148-622-X
- 1-61148-433-2
- OCLC:
- 855970093
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