Title Interiors and narrative : the spatial poetics of Machado De Assis, Eça de Queirós, and Leopoldo Alas / Estela Vieira

Published [Lewisburg, Pennsylvania] : Bucknell University Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 249 pages) : illustrations Series Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory. Contents Introduction: Interiors and narrative -- The novel's sense of the interior -- The novelist's sense of the interior -- Furnishing the novel -- The threshold: The ins and outs of Quincas Borba -- Movables and immovables: the legend of the Maias -- The corners of the world: inside La Regenta -- Interiors and interiority -- Inside the minds and hearts of Machado's characters -- Eça's interior decorators -- Memory and movement: Ana's and Fermín's interiors -- The discourse of interiors -- Machado's minimalism and the meaning of things -- The narrative life of Eça's furnishings -- The dramatic effect of Clarín's interior architecture -- Epilogue: from Voltaire's garden to Galdós's rooms 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Machado de Assis, 1839-1908 -- Criticism and interpretation Queirós, Eça de, 1845-1900 -- Criticism and interpretation Alas, Leopoldo, 1852-1901 -- Criticism and interpretation Alas, Leopoldo, 1852-1901 Machado de Assis, 1839-1908 Queirós, Eça de, 1845-1900 Latin American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism Spanish literature -- Foreign countries -- History and criticism Interior architecture -- In literature Architecture and literature Narration (Rhetoric) LITERARY CRITICISM -- Caribbean & Latin American. Architecture and literature Latin American fiction Narration (Rhetoric) Spanish literature -- Foreign countries Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2021678153 ISBN 9781611484335 1611484332

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