Logos and the Word: The Novel of Language and Linguistic Motivation in Grande Sertao: Veredas and Tres Tristes Tigres

by Stephanie Merriam and Stephanie Merrim

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820400033
• ISBN13: 9780820400037
• Release Date: December 1983
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 106 Pages