Narrating and "Voicing" the Animal: An Analysis of Focalization and Nonfocalized Animal Characters in Horacio Quiroga's "Anaconda" (1921).
This article combines theories of narratology, fauna-criticism, and animal studies to analyze focalization and the nonfocalized animal characters in Horacio Quiroga's "Anaconda." While scholars have conducted ecocritical readings of "Anaconda" centered on the focalized serpent protagonists, the nonf...
| Publicado en: | Hispanic Review Vol. 94; no. 2; pp. 273 - 291 |
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