Martinez, Victoria Jeanne.

The semiotics of a bourgeois society : an analysis of the Aguafuertes porteñas by Roberto Arlt / Victoria Martinez. - 1 online resource (198 pages) - Scripta humanistica ; 132. . - Scripta Humanistica (Series) ; 132. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-128).

Ch. 1. General Characteristics of the Aguafuertes Portenas. 1.1. Reflections of Buenos Aires. 1.2. Setting. 1.3. Characters. 1.4. Narrative Structure -- Ch. 2. The Language of the Essays. 2.1. Implied Versus Real Author. 2.2. The Serio-comic Nature of the Essays. 2.3. Multivoiced Narrative. 2.4. Examples of Variations in Voice. 2.5. Conversations -- Ch. 3. Utterances and the Lexicon. 3.1. Cultural Codes. 3.2. The Speech Act. 3.3. The Lexicon -- Ch. 4. Oppositions Produced by Class Struggle. 4.1. Markedness. 4.2. Power and Solidarity -- Ch. 5. Courtship, Marriage, and the Role of the Female -- App. A. Sources of Aguafuertes Portenas -- Appendix of Aguafuertes That Appear in El Mundo.




Arlt, Roberto, 1900-1942. Aguafuertes porteñas.
Arlt, Roberto, 1900-1942.
Arlt, Roberto, 1900-1942. --Technique.


Semiotics and literature.


Buenos Aires (Argentina)--Social life and customs.


Electronic books.

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