{"product_id":"logos-and-the-word-stephanie-merrim-9780820400037","title":"Logos and the Word: The Novel of Language and Linguistic Motivation in Grande Sertao: Veredas and Tres Tristes Tigres","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephanie Merrim\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820400033\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820400037\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/31\/1983\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 106\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Stephanie Merrim","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48241109270783,"sku":"9780820400037","price":25.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a7177425-4ae7-4167-aa7c-f57826e15dc2.jpg?v=1772652771","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/logos-and-the-word-stephanie-merrim-9780820400037","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}