Reading 'La Regenta' : Duplicitous discourse and the entropy of structure.
Title:
Reading 'La Regenta' : Duplicitous discourse and the entropy of structure.
Author:
Sieburth, Stephanie A.
ISBN:
9789027278173
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (134 pages)
Series:
Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages ; v.29
Purdue University Monographs in Romance Languages
Contents:
READING LA REGENTA Duplicitous Discourse and the Entropy of Structure -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction La Regentaand Its Critics: From Representation to Reflexivity -- Part I. NarratorialSeduction and La Regenta's Critique of Language -- 1. Vetustan Discourse: The Destruction of the Sign -- 2. The Narrator's Discourse: Seduction and Ambivalence -- 3. Narrator and Protagonist: The Struggle for Authority -- 4. The Narrator and the Classics: The Creation of the Implied Reader -- 5. The Narrator's Metaphorical System: The Model of the World in La Regenta -- Part II. Structure and Entropy: Intertextuality and Self-Reflection in La Regenta -- 6. Intertextuality: La Regenta's Quixotic Structure -- 7. Self-Reflection and the Subversion of Unity -- 8. Fragmentation and Madness: Ana as a Figure of Textual Structure -- Notes -- Bibliography.
Abstract:
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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