Foregrounded description in prose fiction : five cross-literary studies / / José Manuel Lopes

• Autore: Lopes José Manuel
• Pubblicazione: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1995; ©1995
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (196 p.)
• Disciplina: 809.3/85
• Soggetto topico: Romance-language fiction - History and criticism; Description (Rhetoric); Narration (Rhetoric); Structuralism (Literary analysis)
• Soggetto genere / forma: Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Electronic books.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Foregrounded description in prose fiction
• ISBN: 1-4426-5580-1; 1-4426-2324-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827454203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Theory/culture series.