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Foregrounded description in prose fiction : five cross-literary studies
- Title
- Foregrounded description in prose fiction : five cross-literary studies / José Manuel Lopes.
- Author
- Lopes, José Manuel.
- Publication
- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [1995], ©1995.
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- Description
- x, 183 pages; 24 cm.
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Theory/culture
- Uniform Title
- Theory/culture series.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-178) and index.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0802007279
- LCCN
- 96122371
- OCLC
- 34145330
- ocm34145330
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries