Interiors and Narrative
The Spatial Poetics of Machado de Assis, Eça de Queirós, and Leopoldo Alas
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 14 December 2012
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781611484328
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages261 pages
- Size 237.74x162.05x25.146 mm
- Weight 531 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 6 b/w photos Illustrations, unspecified 0
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Interiors and Narrative shows how crucial interiors are for our understanding of the nature of narrative. A growing cultural fascination with interior dwelling so prevalent in the late nineteenth century parallels an intensification of the rhetorical function interior architecture plays in the development of fiction. The existential dimension of dwelling becomes so intimately tied to the novelistic project that fiction surfaces as a way of inhabiting the world. This study illustrates this through a comparative reading of three realist masterpieces of the Luso-Hispanic nineteenth century: Machado de Assis's Quincas Borba (1891), Eï¿1⁄2a de Queirï¿1⁄2s's The Maias (1888), and Leopoldo Alas's La Regenta (1884-1885). The first full-length study to juxtapose the renowned writers, Interiors and Narrative analyzes the authors' spatial poetics while offering new readings of their work. The book explores the important links between interiors and narrative by explaining how rooms, furnishings, and homes function as metaphors for the writing of the narrative, reflecting on the complex relation between private dwellings and human interiority, and arguing that the interior design of rooms becomes a language that gives furnishings and decorative objects a narrative life of their own. The story of homes and furnishings in these narratives creates a semiotic language that both readers and characters rely on in order to make sense of fiction and reality.
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Interiors and Narrative
The Novel's Sense of the Interior
The Novelist's Sense of the Interior
Part One: 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
Part Two: Interiors and Interiority
Inside the Minds and Hearts of Machado's Characters
Eï¿1⁄2a's Interior Decorators
Memory and Movement: Ana's and Fermï¿1⁄2n's Interiors
Part Three: The Discourse of Interiors
Machado's Minimalism and the Meaning of Things
The Narrative Life of Eï¿1⁄2a's Furnishings
The Dramatic Effect of Clarï¿1⁄2n's Interior Architecture
Epilogue: From Voltaire's Garden to Galdï¿1⁄2s's Rooms
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