The Architecture of Imagery in Alberto Moravia's Fiction

Kozma examines the use of metaphor and simile in the works of the twentieth-century Italian fiction writer Alberto Moravia, whose novels include Gli indiferenti (1929) and La Romana (1947). She provides a comprehensive description of types of imagery in Moravia's work, organizing this compendium into a series of categories such as images of thought, nature, food, and the human body.

Product details

• Authors: Janice M Kozma, Janice M. Kozma
• Publisher: UNC Department of Romance Studies
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2017
• EAN: 9780807892480
• ISBN: 978-0-8078-9248-0
• No. of pages: 130
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 7 mm
• Weight: 201 g
• Series: Fred W. Morrison Series in Sou
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies