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| Record 1 of 56 |
| | Author | | Polley, Krista
| | | Title | | A Comparative Study of the Death of Authority and the Loss of Self in Postmodern Literature
| | | Publisher | | University of Alberta | | | Publication place | | Alberta, Canada | | | Publication year | | 2005 | | | Page | | | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | (Abstract) "The themes of the death of authority and the loss of self are portrayed in postmodern world literature. Through five culturally specific novels, both the themes of the death of authority and the resulting idea of the loss of self are explored. Gabriel García Márquez, Jerzy Kosinski, Milan Kundera, J.M. Coetzee, and Haruki Murakami provide the novels, each of which presents the postmodern individual living in the world with no sense of authority and no sense of self. These individuals abandon their cultural and social roles in the attempt to find themselves. The individual's situation is understood through the radical theology of kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Altizer and it's relationship to the deconstruction of Derrida and Barthes." (M.A. Thesis) | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 2 of 56 |
| | Author | | Lundin, Laura Lee
| | | Title | | "An Alternative Reality: Magical Realism in One Hundred Years of Solitude"
| | | Publisher | | Midwestern State Universtiy of Witchita Falls Texas | | | Publication place | | Wichita Falls, Texas | | | Publication year | | 2003 | | | Page | | | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | Includes bibliographical references. Dissertation: Thesis (M.A.) | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 3 of 56 |
| | Author | | Schoenherr, Julie
| | | Title | | Aprobación y desaprobación del honor a la luz de la narratología: Estudio comparativo de
| | | Publisher | | University of Ottawa | | | Publication place | | Ottawa, Canada | | | Publication year | | 2003 | | | Page | | | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | "This thesis examines honour as a central theme in narrative passages of 'El alcalde de Zalamea' a seventeenth-century play by Spain's Pedro Calderon de la Barca, and in 'Cronica de una muerte anunciada' (1981), a short novel by Colombian Gabriel García Márquez. By means of a comparative study, and using narratology as the primary theoretical and methodological frame, this theme is explored through the analysis of both works at three different 'levels'; that of the characters, the narrators, and the implied authors with the intention of revealing the distinct contrast between the ideology expressed at all levels and, ultimately, at the level of the respective implied authors as the embodiment of the works' ideologies, in regards to honour as a socially-regulated code of conduct. An important portion of this analysis is dedicated to discussing the relationship between the fictional components of these works and their symbolic meaning in the external or 'real'/non-fictional world in connection with said ideology." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 4 of 56 |
| | Author | | Segura, Camila
| | | Title | | Asimilación de un paisaje trágico: Violencia y melodrama en la novela colombiana contemporánea
| | | Publisher | | Columbia University | | | Publication place | | New York, United States | | | Publication year | | 2007 | | | Page | | 377 p. | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | (Abstract) "Drawing on the work of such theorists as Peter Brooks, James Smith, Christine Gledhill, Linda Williams and Ben Singer, among others, I examine the ways in which some contemporary Colombian novels use violence and melodrama to make sense of the country's social and political turmoil. The historical context of the classic, late 18th century melodrama is comparable to that of contemporary Colombia in that both periods share a generalized feeling of instability, insecurity, and moral ambiguity." and "I also analyze the sociohistorical solutions these novels propose and, considering the incredible publishing success some of them have had, what this suggests in reference to the Colombian imaginaries and their attitudes regarding the State and the Colombian violence. By reading these texts through this unstudied perspective, I bring into focus a new way to read some of the contemporary Colombian novels." Ph.D Dissertation | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 5 of 56 |
| | Author | | Menton, Seymour
| | | Title | | Caminata por la narrativa latinoamericana
| | | Publisher | | Universidad Veracruzana Fondo de Cultura Económica | | | Publication place | | México DF, México | | | Publication year | | 2002 | | | Page | | 34, 42, 45, 48-49, 52-53, 56-57, 59-62, 65, 9 | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | Menton rereads every book, article, review, notes and theses written since his first stay in Mexico in 1948-49 until the present for the purpose of finding the theoretical basis of his approaches to literature. His approaches to literature can be summed up in two words: "scrutiny" and "walking." Once he began this task, Menton realized that intrinsic reading is not always enough because it could not be done in a void. As much as a reader analyzes the form of a work with all the variety of technical resources, one has to place it into its sociopolitical context as well as the literary context. | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 6 of 56 |
| | Author | | Pineda Botero, Álvaro
| | | Title | | "Cien años de soledad, El otoño del patriarca, El amor en los tiempos del cólera. Gabriel García Márquez," Juicios de residencia: Una novela colombiana, 1934-1985
| | | Publisher | | Fondo Editorial Universidad EAFIT | | | Publication place | | Medellín, Colombia | | | Publication year | | 2001 | | | Page | | 193-216, 231-240, 271-282 | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | Pineda Botero provides an interpretation of author and reader in One Hundred Years of Solitude, and analyzes the role of Melquíades as protagonist, writer and prophet; meanwhile, Aureliano represents the reader. | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 7 of 56 |
| | Author | | González Echeverría, Roberto.
| | | Title | | Crítica práctica
| | | Publisher | | Fondo de Cultura Económica | | | Publication place | | México DF, México | | | Publication year | | 2002 | | | Page | | 17, 24-29, 43, 73, 115, 130-146, 233 | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | González Echeverría compiles in Crítica Práctica/Práctica Crítica a brilliant set of essays, scattered before in diverse, specialized mediums, to comment with a broader audience the origins and horizons of narrative works represented in the Latin American world: Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Alejo Carpentier, and Severo Sarduy, who give a temperate and universal voice to our continent. González Echeverría concentrates on the creative zones specific to those authors to discern aspects that up until now have rarely been analyzed. | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 8 of 56 |
| | Author | | Neissa, Peter Anthony
| | | Title | | Dictators, Directives, Tyranical Figures, and Cultural Discourse: Jorge Zalamea, Gabriel García Márquez, and Mario Vargas Llosa
| | | Publisher | | Boston College | | | Publication place | | Boston, MA | | | Publication year | | 2004 | | | Page | | | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | "This study focuses on how a dictator or a culturally dominant power can use language to impose cultural values. As an instrument of power, language is used by dictator to educate, induce, or manipulate a nation's citizens into acting in accordance with the ruling power's cultural values and beliefs. Jorge Zalamea in 'El Gran Burundún-Burundá ha muerto'(1951), Gabriel García Márquez in 'El otoño del patriarca' (1975), and Mario Vargas Llosa in 'La fiesta del Chivo' (2000), draw attention to how the use of vernacular can resist cultural imposition by employing culture-specific items in order to represent its own culture and nature of reality. When translated into a different language, culture-specific items created a conflict of meaning between the original text and the translated text. This discord arises because the translated reference no longer conveys its original message. The original significance has been substituted in the translated text for a new meaning determined by the dictator or translators ideology, usage, or the untranslable nature of the original words. These culturally loaded words are categorized into three areas of language defines relationships of power and resistance between a dictator and his nation, or between one culture and another, such as the United States over Latin American Culture. The analysis of culture-specific items presented in this dissertation will provide an understanding of how language functions as an instrument for the imposition to gain or maintain power in 'El Gran Burundú-Burundá ha muerto', 'El otoño del patriarca', and 'La fiesta del Chivo.' Culture-specific items also suggest how translators may substitute the values of the source culture in the original text for their own cultural biases when translating from Spanish to English." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 9 of 56 |
| | Author | | Pedros-Gascon, Antonio Francisco
| | | Title | | Diálogos transatlanticos: Un "boom" de ida y vuelta
| | | Publisher | | Ohio State University | | | Publication place | | Ohio, United States | | | Publication year | | 2007 | | | Page | | 262 p. | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | (Abstract) "Alejo Carpentier's theory of 'lo real maravilloso americano' gave shape to the 'interpretative community' of the Latin American 'Boom'--which dovetailed authors such as Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Julio Cortázar among others. Like a boomerang sent into the future, this identity 'propuesta de significado,' or proposition of meaning, was thought to be miraculously embodied by the Cuban Revolution...The transnational cross-border encounters of the 'Boom' shaped and contributed to a (post)modernization of the Spanish 'imaginario patrio' and induced a feeling of anxiety that revolutionized the relations between Spanish authors and 'their' inherited tradition and language." Ph.D Dissertation | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 10 of 56 |
| | Author | | Gibbs, Melisandre
| | | Title | | Ecluses, suivi de, La narration multiple dans le roman: 'Des feuille dans la bourrasque' de Gabriel García Márquez
| | | Publisher | | McGill University | | | Publication place | | Montreal, Canada | | | Publication year | | 2004 | | | Page | | | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | URL | | | |
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