The novel : language and narrative from Cervantes to Calvino / André Brink.
| Author/creator | Brink, André P. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : New York University Press, 1998. |
| Description | viii, 373 pages ; 22 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The wrong side of the tapestry : Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha -- Courtly love, private anguish : Madame de la Fayette, La Princesse de Clèves -- 'The woman's snare' : Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders -- The dialogic pact : Denis Diderot, Jacques the fatalist and his master -- Charades : Jane Austen, Emma -- The language of scandal : Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary -- Quoted in slang : George Eliot, Middlemarch -- The tiger's revenge : Thomas Mann, Death in Venice -- A room without a view : Franz Kafka, The trial -- The perfect crime : Alain Robbe-Grillet, Le voyeur -- Making and unmaking : Gabriel García Márquez, One hundred years of solitude -- Withdrawal and return : Margaret Atwood, Surfacing -- Taking the gap : Milan Kundera, The unbearable lightness of being -- Possessed by language : A.S. Byatt, Possession -- The pranks of Hermes : Italo Calvino, If on a winter's night a traveller. |
| Local note | Little-316099--305131016396 |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 330-368) and index. |
| LCCN | 97048400 |
| ISBN | 0814713300 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PN3491 .B75 1998 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |