Description |
1 online resource (297 pages) |
Contents |
Modernity's Metonyms; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: "Le Grand courant de la civilisation moderne": The Railway Metonym; Chapter 2: "Der Mensch ist, was er isst": The Food Metonym; Chapter 3: Back from the Future: The Suicide Metonym; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
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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Alas, Leopoldo, 1852-1901 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Ros de Olano, Antonio -- Criticism and interpretation
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Alas, Leopoldo, 1852-1901 fast |
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Ros de Olano, Antonio fast |
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Spanish literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Time in literature.
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Spanish literature
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Time in literature
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781611480474 |
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1611480477 |
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