Foregrounded description in prose fiction
Subtitle: five cross-literarystudies
By: José Manuel Lopes.
Series: Theory/culture
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Toronto; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
Subjects: Romance fiction -- History and criticism.; Description (Rhetoric); Narration (Rhetoric); Structuralism (Literary analysis)
Description: 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.
Notes: Bibliography: p167-178. - Includes index.

Includes texts in French, Portuguese and Spanish.