Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. I. Towards a framework for the analysis of description in prose fiction 6
7. II. Description and mise en abyme in Zola's line Page d'amour 28
8. III. Reading of visual images and postcard descriptions in Claude Simon's Histoire 51
9. IV. The sarcastic descriptor: Satire and parody in Benito Perez Galdos' La de Bringas 68
10. V. Description and modes of representation in Cornelio Penna's A Menina Morta 91
11. VI. The impossible 'mimesis': Description and metadescription in Carlos de Oliveira's Finisterra 115
12. Conclusion 142
13. Notes 151
14. Bibliography 167
15. Index 179