Interiors and narrative
Subtitle: the spatial poetics of Machado De Assis, Eça de Queirós, and Leopoldo Alas
By: Estela Vieira
Series: Bucknell University Press Latin American studies series; Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9781611484328
Subjects: Interior architecture in literature; Architecture and literature; Spanish literature; Narration (Rhetoric); Latin American fiction; History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The novel's sense of the interior; title: The novelist's sense of the interior; title: Furnishing the novel; title: The threshold: The ins and outs of Quincas Borba; title: Movables and immovables: the legend of the Maias; title: The corners of the world: inside La Regenta; title: Interiors and interiority; title: Inside the minds and hearts of Machado's characters; title: Eça's interior decorators; title: Memory and movement: Ana's and Fermín's interiors; title: The discourse of interiors; title: Machado's minimalism and the meaning of things; title: The narrative life of Eça's furnishings; title: The dramatic effect of Clarín's interior architecture; title: Epilogue: from Voltaire's garden to Galdós's rooms.