Reading `LA Regenta: Duplicitious Discourse & the Entropy of Structure - Brossura

Sieburth, Stephanie Anne

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1556190700 ISBN 13: 9781556190704

Casa editrice: John Benjamins Pub Co, 2000

Riassunto

Criticism of La Regenta has until recently focused on the text's plot as an extraordinarily coherent and convincing fictional world. Stephanie A. Sieburth demonstrates that the devices which produce order in the text are counterbalanced by an equally strong tendency toward entropy of meaning. The narrator is shown to be duplicitous and unreliable in his judgments on characters and events. Without an omniscient narrator, readers must interpret for themselves the complex intertextual structure of the novel. Saints' lives, honor plays, and serial novels each provide partial reflections of Ana Ozores' story. The text becomes a collage of mutually reflecting segments which, like Ana in her moments of self-doubt and madness, ultimately question the function of language and of any overriding interpretation or meaning.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: John Benjamins Pub Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1556190700
• ISBN 13: 9781556190704
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 134