Title: Foregrounded description in prose fiction
First published: 1995
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.
Subjects: Romance fiction, History and criticism, Structuralism (Literary analysis), Narration (Rhetoric), Description (Rhetoric), Romance-language fiction, Comparative literature, themes, motives
LC classification: PN816 .L67 1995