Foregrounded Description in Prose Fiction: Five Cross-Literary Studies

José Lopes

Published by University of Toronto Press 1995

Foregrounded Description in Prose Fiction

Five Cross-Literary Studies

José Lopes

In the series Theory / Culture

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442623248

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In this wide-ranging study, José 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.

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Lopes José :

José Manuel Lopes is a postdoctoral fellow in the Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Foreword Wladimir Krysinski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I. Towards a framework for the analysis of description in prose fiction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	6
II. Description and mise en abyme in Zola's line Page d'amour Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	28
III. Reading of visual images and postcard descriptions in Claude Simon's Histoire Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
IV. The sarcastic descriptor: Satire and parody in Benito Perez Galdos' La de Bringas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	68
V. Description and modes of representation in Cornelio Penna's A Menina Morta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
VI. The impossible 'mimesis': Description and metadescription in Carlos de Oliveira's Finisterra Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 196

eBook

Published: December 15, 1995
ISBN: 9781442623248