Western Cultural Symbols in Latin American and Chicano Literature :: an Historical and Semiotic Analysis.

This book explains the fundamentals of semiotic theory (the study of signs), and applies it to more than twenty works by a dozen Latin American and Mexican American authors. Using a post-modernist interpretation of signs, Breining makes the point that there exists a relationship of the privileged an...

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1. Verfasser: Breining, Daniel
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.
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Zusammenfassung:This book explains the fundamentals of semiotic theory (the study of signs), and applies it to more than twenty works by a dozen Latin American and Mexican American authors. Using a post-modernist interpretation of signs, Breining makes the point that there exists a relationship of the privileged and disenfranchised within Latin America and Chicano literature. Covering a span of more than five hundred years, from pre-Hispanic times to the late twentieth century, Breining demonstrates how the signs found with the literature of each period of Latin American history, define social interactions, c.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (296 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-267) and index.
ISBN:9780773429468
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