The fantastic genre understood through the absence: Julio’s Cortázar «Cartas de mamá»

<p>The following paper analyses how the ellipsis and the blank space function as the main features in categorizing Julio Cortázar’s short story, «Cartas de mamá», as part of the fantastic genre –alongside with the order’s juxtaposition, the conflict, the effect, the treatment, and the subject...

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Main Author: Soad Lozano Peters
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2015-12-01
Series:Brumal: Revista de Investigación sobre lo Fantástico
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Online Access:https://revistes.uab.cat/brumal/article/view/174
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spelling doaj-8ac7969426524079b5b8c9300f7dd4c02021-02-09T17:29:13ZengUniversitat Autònoma de BarcelonaBrumal: Revista de Investigación sobre lo Fantástico2014-79102015-12-013213515310.5565/rev/brumal.17471The fantastic genre understood through the absence: Julio’s Cortázar «Cartas de mamá»Soad Lozano Peters0Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Campus Santa Fe<p>The following paper analyses how the ellipsis and the blank space function as the main features in categorizing Julio Cortázar’s short story, «Cartas de mamá», as part of the fantastic genre –alongside with the order’s juxtaposition, the conflict, the effect, the treatment, and the subject matter. Also, it postulates that these kind of literary texts alter the reading process by preventing the completion of all informative gaps. </p>https://revistes.uab.cat/brumal/article/view/174fantastic, julio cortázar, ellipsis, blank spaces.
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The fantastic genre understood through the absence: Julio’s Cortázar «Cartas de mamá»
Brumal: Revista de Investigación sobre lo Fantástico
fantastic, julio cortázar, ellipsis, blank spaces.
author_facet Soad Lozano Peters
author_sort Soad Lozano Peters
title The fantastic genre understood through the absence: Julio’s Cortázar «Cartas de mamá»
title_short The fantastic genre understood through the absence: Julio’s Cortázar «Cartas de mamá»
title_full The fantastic genre understood through the absence: Julio’s Cortázar «Cartas de mamá»
title_fullStr The fantastic genre understood through the absence: Julio’s Cortázar «Cartas de mamá»
title_full_unstemmed The fantastic genre understood through the absence: Julio’s Cortázar «Cartas de mamá»
title_sort fantastic genre understood through the absence: julio’s cortázar «cartas de mamá»
publisher Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
series Brumal: Revista de Investigación sobre lo Fantástico
issn 2014-7910
publishDate 2015-12-01
description <p>The following paper analyses how the ellipsis and the blank space function as the main features in categorizing Julio Cortázar’s short story, «Cartas de mamá», as part of the fantastic genre –alongside with the order’s juxtaposition, the conflict, the effect, the treatment, and the subject matter. Also, it postulates that these kind of literary texts alter the reading process by preventing the completion of all informative gaps. </p>
topic fantastic, julio cortázar, ellipsis, blank spaces.
url https://revistes.uab.cat/brumal/article/view/174
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