Foregrounded description in prose fiction : five cross-literary studies /
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 spec...
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Toronto [Ontario] :
University of Toronto Press,
[1995]
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| Series: | Theory/culture series.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.