Speaking out to the people”: Manipulation and melodrama in the radiofonic discourses in the novels Lost City Radio (2007) and "Pantaleón y las visitadoras" (1973)
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Radio and literature, Mass Media, Lost City Radio, Pantaleón y las visitadoras, Voice/Voices, Manipulation, , Melodrama.
Abstract
The present paper focuses on the representation of radio in two the novels Pantaleón y las visitadoras by Mario Vargas Llosa and Lost City Radio by Daniel Alarcón. In both texts the radio represents and introduces a powerful and manipulative voice whose presence, according to the hypothesis, permits both texts to present melodramatic characteristics. Nevertheless, this melodramatic aspect does not minimize their literary quality but, in fact, renders a contribution to the multiplicity of voices which converts a text into literature.Downloads
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2013-09-26
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Quandt C. (2013). Speaking out to the people”: Manipulation and melodrama in the radiofonic discourses in the novels Lost City Radio (2007) and "Pantaleón y las visitadoras" (1973). Anales de Literatura Hispanoamericana, 42(Especial), 131-146. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_ALHI.2012.v42.43032
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