Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-211) and index.
Contents
Introduction : Tools of self-discovery and change -- Subjective devices to reveal the feminine psyche in Carmen Laforet's Nada -- The entrapment of the distorted mirror in Primera memoria -- Metaphor and metonymy : a bridge between the gaps in La placa del Diamant -- The reflection of dangerous division in Julia -- El amor es un juego solitario : loss of truth through baroque metaphors and provocative mirrors -- Metonymy and mirrors as process of identity in El cuarto de atras -- Mirror messages that signal change in Questio d'amor propi -- Conclusion : the temporal mirror.