Logos and the Word : The Novel of Language and Linguistic Motivation in Grande Sertao: Veredas and Tres Tristes Tigres
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Utah Studies in Literature & Linguistics
ISBN-10
0820400033
ISBN-13
9780820400037
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New
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 31st, 1983
Print length
106 Pages
Weight
194 grams
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15.90 x 22.50 x 0.90 cms
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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.
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