Logos and the Word

The Novel of Language and Linguistic Motivation in Grande Sertao: Veredas and Tres Tristes Tigres

Stephanie Merrim (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

106 Seiten

1983
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8204-0003-7 (ISBN)

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Readers and critics alike have found the dense - Joyce-like - verbal inventions of these two experimental Latin American novels gratuitous and incomprehensible. This study, however, by articulating the 'grammar' of the neologisms, relating them to the thematic, stylistic, and semiotic elements of the text, and exposing their linguistically motivated nature, reveals the textual languages not as a descent into Babel but as attempts to storm a linguistic Eden. The study sets up a comparative framework for both works through a new, formal definition of the Latin American novel of language. The ensuing discussion establishes that whereas the Brazilian author shapes language into a more transparent and 'natural' copy of (his vision of) the world, Cabrera Infante invents a pure, non-referential 'anti-language' as secret as the Havana nightworld of Tres tristes tigres.

Contents: The Novel of Language - Linguistic Motivation in Grande Sertao: Veredas - The Anti-Language of Tres tristes tigres - Conclusion: Back from Babel.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.12.1983
Reihe/Serie	Utah Studies in Literature and Linguistics ; 23
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	210 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Romanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-8204-0003-3 / 0820400033
ISBN-13	978-0-8204-0003-7 / 9780820400037
Zustand	Neuware