Modernity's Metonyms : Figuring Time in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Stories.
Modernity's Metonyms considers the representation of temporal frameworks in stories by the nineteenth-century Spanish authors, Leopoldo Alas and Antonio Ros de Olano. Adopting a metonymic approach--exploring the reiteration of specific associations across a range of disciplines, from literature...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group,
2011.
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| Online Access: | Ebook Central Academic Complete |
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| Summary: | Modernity's Metonyms considers the representation of temporal frameworks in stories by the nineteenth-century Spanish authors, Leopoldo Alas and Antonio Ros de Olano. Adopting a metonymic approach--exploring the reiteration of specific associations across a range of disciplines, from literature, philosophy, historiography, to natural history--Modernity's Metonyms moves beyond the consideration of nineteenth-century Spanish literary modernity in terms of the problem of representation. Through anexploration of the associations prompted by three themes, the railway, food, and suicide, it argues tha. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (297 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781611480474 1611480477 |