Luxemburg, Jan van
Rhetoric and Pleasure

Readings in Realist Literature.

This study treats, after a discussion on literary theory, rhetorical and conventional aspects of realist novels from three different cultures: La regenta by the Spaniard Leopoldo Alas (1852-1901), the feminist novel Constance Ring by the Norwegian author Amalie Skram (1846-1905) and three Roman novels by the Dutch writer Louis Couperus (1863-1923). The author argues that part of the meaning of these novels is influenced and in some cases even rendered undecidable by the use of rhetorical figures and tropes or by the exigencies of literary decorum. 231 Seiten, broschiert (Europäische Hochschulschriften. Reihe XVIII: Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Vol. 65/Peter Lang Verlag 1992) Mängelexemplar