 | Foregrounded Description in Prose Fictio: Five Cross-Literary Studies Subjects: Romance fiction -- History and criticism; French fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; French fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Spanish fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Portuguese fiction -- 20th century -- His; In this wide-ranging study, José 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. Lopes José : José Manuel Lopes is a postdoctoral fellow in the Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto. |
