Hickory Mouse by Sheila K Mccullagh
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.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780721409375 |
| ISBN 10 | 0721409377 |
| Title | Hickory Mouse |
| Author | Sheila K Mccullagh |
| Series | Puddle Lane S |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Children's UK |
| Year published | 1985-01-31 |
| Number of pages | 52 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |