| Logos and the Word: The Novel of Language and Linguistic Motivation in Grande Sertao: Veredas and Tres Tristes Tigres Contributor(s): Merrim, Stephanie (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820400033 ISBN-13: 9780820400037 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $24.51 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 1983 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines - Literary Criticism | European - Spanish & Portuguese |
| Dewey: 863 |
| LCCN: 83047648 |
| Series: Utah Studies in Literature and Linguistics |
| Physical Information: 106 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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." |