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245 04 $aThe Garden across the border :$bMercè Rodoreda's fiction /$cedited by Kathleen McNerney and Nancy Vosburg.
260 $aSelinsgrove :$bSusquehanna University Press ;$aLondon ;$aCranbury, NJ :$bAssociated University Presses,$c[1994], ©1994.
263 $a9311
300 $a259 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 243-254) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction / Kathleen McNerney -- In the Name of the Mother and the Daughter: The Discourse of Love and Sorrow in Merce Rodoreda's La placa del Diamant / Neus Carbonell -- Exile in the City: Merce Rodoreda's La placa del Diamant / Enric Bou -- More Heaven and Less Mud: The Precedence of Catalan Unity over Feminism in Francesc Betriu's Filmic Version of Merce Rodoreda's La placa del Diamant / Patricia Hart -- Rituals and Sacrificial Rites in Merce Rodoreda's La mort i la primavera / Donna McGiboney -- "Vinculada a les flors": Flowers and the Body in Jardi vora el mar and Mirall trencat / Elizabeth Scarlett -- Gothic Spaces, Transgressions, and Apparitions in Mirall trencat: Rodoreda's Adaptation of the Paradigm / Janet Perez -- Normative Order and the Catalan Heimat in Merce Rodoreda's Mirall trencat / Gonzalo Navajas -- The Autobiography of a Nobody: Merce Rodoreda's El carrer de les Camelies / Kathleen M. Glenn -- Detective Formula and Parodic Reflexivity: Crim / Joan Ramon Resina.
505 0 $aAloma's Two Faces and the Character of Her True Nature / Randolph D. Pope -- The Roots of Alienation: Rodoreda's Viatges i flors / Nancy Vosburg -- The Salamander and the Butterfly / Elizabeth Rhodes -- Gender and Personality in Rodoreda's Short Fiction / Josep Miquel Sobrer -- Merce Rodoreda: From Traditional Tales to Modern Fantasy / Ana Rueda -- Fragments of Letters: Merce Rodoreda's Wartime Fiction / Emilie L. Bergmann.
520 $aThe Garden across the Border begins with a general introduction to Merce Rodoreda's life and work, an orientation to the collection itself, and a brief chronology by Kathleen McNerney. The first three essays deal with La placa del Diamant, Rodoreda's best-known and widely translated novel. Enric Bou considers the various kinds of exile Rodoreda underwent: political, geographic, linguistic, and personal. Patricia Hart compares the novel with Francesc Betriu's 1982 film.
520 8 $aNeus Carbonell, using Julia Kristeva's theories of the symbolic order and interpretations of the biblical myth of origin, relates the questions of identity to the absence of the mother and the imposition of silence.
520 8 $aSeveral essays deal with Rodoreda's lesser-known novels. Donna McGiboney also uses the theories of Kristeva but to examine La mort i la primavera. Elizabeth Scarlett discusses Jardi vora el mar and Mirall trencat, particularly with regard to Rodoreda's well-known flower imagery. Janet Perez deals with Mirall trencat as a gothic novel. Gonzalo Navajas addresses Mirall trencat as well, using a postmodern approach. In her study of El carrer de les camelies, Kathleen Glenn returns to the picaresque novel.
520 8 $aThere are two studies of Rodoreda's prewar novels. Joan Ramon Resina pinpoints the surprising fact that Crim is a parodic reflection of the detective novel. Randolph Pope's scrutiny of the two versions of Aloma leads him to conclude that the second constitutes a kind of censorship of the first.
520 8 $aViatges i flors is a transition piece in Rodoreda's work. It is a series of vignettes written in lyrical prose. Nancy Vosburg explores metaphors of rootedness, exile, displacement, and wandering in contrast with enclosure, protection, and imprisonment.
520 8 $aThe rest of the essays focus on Rodoreda's short stories. Josep Miguel Sobrer concentrates on the male protagonists in three stories; he sees a duality between women and men. Ana Rueda goes back into the development of fantastic fiction to explain Rodoreda who crafts, she claims, a modern fantasy. Emilie Bergmann isolates a specific historical period - 1938 - to study the development of Rodoreda's early fiction.
520 8 $aAnd, in concentrating on a single story, "La salamandra," Elizabeth Rhodes brings together many of the constants.
600 10 $aRodoreda, Mercè,$d1908-1983$xCriticism and interpretation.
700 1 $aMcNerney, Kathleen.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82155746
700 1 $aVosburg, Nancy,$d1953-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93112239
852 00 $bglx$hPC3941.R57$iZ67 1994
852 00 $bbar$hPC3941.R57$iZ67 1994