José Donoso's House of Fiction: A Dramatic Construction of Time and Place

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ISBN
9780814325261
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, History
Publication Name
José Donoso's House of Fiction : a Dramatic Construction of Time and Place
Publisher
Wayne State University Press
Item Length
9 in
Subject
Caribbean & Latin American, Latin America / South America, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year
1995
Series
Latin American Literature and Culture Ser.
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
0.5 in
Author
Flora Gonzalez Mandri
Item Weight
17.7 Oz
Item Width
6 in
Number of Pages
200 Pages
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Publisher
Wayne State University Press
ISBN-10
0814325262
ISBN-13
9780814325261
eBay Product ID (ePID)
102808035

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
200 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
José Donoso's House of Fiction : a Dramatic Construction of Time and Place
Subject
Caribbean & Latin American, Latin America / South America, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year
1995
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, History
Author
Flora Gonzalez Mandri
Series
Latin American Literature and Culture Ser.
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
17.7 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
94-036956
Dewey Edition
20
Reviews
A must for any student of the Latin American novel. González Mandri thoroughly unveils with ease and elegance the unity and the thematic/structural transformations in Donoso's art., González Mandri's readings of Donoso's fiction as a series of staged theatrical voices and performances, and the house as the metaphoric structure that circumscribes both performance and audience, afford a clever interpretative twist. Her analyses are articulate and provocative.
Dewey Decimal
863
Synopsis
In this critical volume Flora Gonzalez Mandri provides a comprehensive reading of the narrative works of Jose Donoso, Chile's most prominent novelist. A respected member of the Latin American Boom, his international reputation was established in 1970 with publication of The Obscene Bird of Night. While Donoso has long been canonized as one of the preeminent Latin American narrators, and translations of his novels and short prose have been available for some time, there has been no book-length study of his work in English until now. Gonzalez Mandri focuses on Donoso's novels and novellas fr om the 1950s through today, including Coronation (1957), A House in the Country (1978), The Garden Next Door (1981), and "Taratuta" (1990). She concentrates particularly on questions of space and perspective within the theatrical-novelistic world he creates, considering the "house" in Donoso's fiction-the family home, brothel, convent, or apartment-as theater. The doors and windows of his houses act as frames for dramatic scenes within whichhe directs the movements of his subjects for his audience. This volume examines the multiple narrative perspectives Donoso presents and traces a transformation in Donoso's works from complex stage performance to political forum. Studying fiction as grotesque, mannered theater or as a transparent screen through which social and political concerns are scrutinized, Gonzalez Mandri illuminates another constant in Donoso's work: a weaving of feminine and masculine aspects of artistic voice as they incorporate the idioms of drama, radio, film, and television. Using the cultural theories of Bakhtin and Foucault and the seminal studies of theatricality by Peter Brooks and Barbara Freedman, Gonzalez Mandri explores Donoso's complete novelistic works to date, placing him at the crux of Latin American postmodern production. Her sensitive readings of his novels provide access to the first-time reader of Donoso at the same time that they require experts to reconsider foregone conclusions, particularly concerning issues of gender, genre, and social perspective., This text examines the multiple narrative perspectives Donoso presents and traces a transformation in Donoso's works from complex stage performance to political forum. It illuminates a weaving of feminine and masculine aspects of artistic voice in his work., This text examines the multiple narrative perspectives Donoso presents and traces a transformation in Donoso's works from complex stage performance to political forum. In this critical volume Flora Gonzalez Mandri provides a comprehensive reading of the narrative works of Jose Donoso, Chile's most prominent novelist. A respected member of the Latin American Boom, his international reputation was established in 1970 with publication of The Obscene Bird of Night. While Donoso has long been canonized as one of the preeminent Latin American narrators, and translations of his novels and short prose have been available for some time, there has been no book-length study of his work in English until now. Gonzalez Mandri focuses on Donoso's novels and novellas fr om the 1950s through today, including Coronation (1957), A House in the Country (1978), The Garden Next Door (1981), and "Taratuta" (1990). She concentrates particularly on questions of space and perspective within the theatrical-novelistic world he creates, considering the "house" in Donoso's fiction-the family home, brothel, convent, or apartment-as theater. The doors and windows of his houses act as frames for dramatic scenes within whichhe directs the movements of his subjects for his audience. This volume examines the multiple narrative perspectives Donoso presents and traces a transformation in Donoso's works from complex stage performance to political forum. Studying fiction as grotesque, mannered theater or as a transparent screen through which social and political concerns are scrutinized, Gonzalez Mandri illuminates another constant in Donoso's work: a weaving of feminine and masculine aspects of artistic voice as they incorporate the idioms of drama, radio, film, and television. Using the cultural theories of Bakhtin and Foucault and the seminal studies of theatricality by Peter Brooks and Barbara Freedman, Gonzalez Mandri explores Donoso's complete novelistic works to date, placing him at the crux of Latin American postmodern production. Her sensitive readings of his novels provide access to the first-time reader of Donoso at the same time that they require experts to reconsider foregone conclusions, particularly concerning issues of gender, genre, and social perspective.
LC Classification Number
PQ8097.D617Z63 1995

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