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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vieira, Estela, 1975-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2013]
Series:Bucknell studies in Latin American literature and theory.
Subjects:
Latin American fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Spanish literature > Foreign countries > History and criticism.
Machado de Assis, > 1839-1908 > Criticism and interpretation.
Queirós, Eça de, > 1845-1900 > Criticism and interpretation.
Alas, Leopoldo, > 1852-1901 > Criticism and interpretation.
Interior architecture in literature.
Architecture and literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Table of 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.