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| Record 41 of 56 |
| | Author | | Murray, Patricia
| | | Title | | Shared Solitude: re-integration of a fractured psyche: a comparative study of the works of Gabriel García Márquez and Wilson Harris.
| | | Publisher | | University of Warwick | | | Publication place | | Warwick, UK | | | Publication year | | 1995 | | | Page | | 275p. | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | "This thesis provides an analysis of the works of Gabriel García Márquez and Wilson Harris in the cross-cultural context of the Americas, emphasizing the importance of myth as well as history in their attempts to explore the hybridity of post-colonial identity....Harris and García Márquez present a vision of the world in which there is creative hope for the future." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 42 of 56 |
| | Author | | Lutes, Todd Oakley.
| | | Title | | Shipwreck and Deliverance: Politics, Culture and Modernity in the Works of Octavio Paz, Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa.
| | | Publisher | | University Press of America | | | Publication place | | Lanham, MD | | | Publication year | | 2003 | | | Page | | 3, 55, 66-67, 70, 73, 78-86, 93-94, 96n18, 99 | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | Throughout this work there are references to the above authors, specifically to Octavio Paz, Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa. This study, previously published as a doctoral dissertation, is concerned with the political theory of modernity in the work of Latin American writers and thinkers. Lutes affirms that the writers' central insights point to the need to assimilate tradition through a democratic dialogue combined with critical appreciation for the cultural uniqueness of nations. | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 43 of 56 |
| | Author | | Conway, Christopher B.
| | | Title | | "Solitude, Signs, and Power in The General in His Labyrinth," The Cult of Bolívar in Latin American Literature
| | | Publisher | | University Press of Florida | | | Publication place | | Gainesville, FL | | | Publication year | | 2003 | | | Page | | 124-150 | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | "In the light, The General in His Labyrinth (1983) may be read as yet another variation on the theme of solitary, powerful men whose separation from reality leads to the fracturing of the self, historical agency, and the promise of solidarity." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 44 of 56 |
| | Author | | Marshall, April D.
| | | Title | | "Somatically Speaking: The Rhetoric of Disease Metaphors and Latin American Literature"
| | | Publisher | | New York University | | | Publication place | | New York, NY | | | Publication year | | March 2004 | | | Page | | | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | "The purpose of this study is to explore the intersection of literature and illness in order to demonstrate that the disease metaphor is an effective trope for Latin American authors seeking to represent topics that have been culturally and historically pathologized in both national society and/or literature. It analyzes the way the rhetoric of the somatic for pathological was used at the end of the 19th century. It also traces the development of this rhetoric into the following century. The dissertation begins with an overview of general literary theory, dealing with an overview of general literary theory and with disease and representation, focusing on Susan Sontag, Julia Epstein and Sander Gilman. It offers a linguistic perspective on the functioning of metaphor as well. By bringing the ideas of medical historian, Charles Rosenberg, to bear on this linguistic discussion, the author defines the notion of the frame and framing. Frames can be understood as being parallel to the concept of the artist's convention; they are constructs that inform the perception of diseases as both a biological event and a social occurrence. Tuberculosis, cholera, and sexually transmitted diseases (AIDS in particular) are the illnesses central to this study. The Latin American writers: Abraham Valdelomar, Manuel Puig, Gabriel García Márquez and Reinaldo Arenas employ metaphors with these diseases in order to engage specific socio-historic material via frames. Each of the three chapters concentrates on a theme that has come to serve as the basis for framing the various diseases; (homo)sexuality, gender, modernization, totalitarianism and plague. These same themes have also been recognized by various literary critics as essential to thinking and problematizing the construction of Latin American identity." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 45 of 56 |
| | Author | | Browning, Veronica
| | | Title | | Speaking Time: Intersections of Literature and Chronosophy
| | | Publisher | | University of Washington | | | Publication place | | Washington, DC | | | Publication year | | 2004 | | | Page | | | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | "This dissertation takes a chronosophical approach to literary study, addressing the changing ways thinkers have chosen to articulate the nature of time, and examining in particular literary works which take on time as a theme. Chronosophy is not science; it does not belong to the arts; it is not religion. Ideas of time belong nowhere but infuse everything. In order even to say this, we must speak in time, as one word necessarily comes before another, reinforcing through language an idea of temporal linearity in which Einstein proclaimed to be an illusion, albeit our most persistent one. The achievement of a remove from which one might find understanding, and Archimedian view from nowhere, has been one of the greatest projects in the history of knowledge. This dissertation discusses literary attempts to find a view from nowhen. In tracing attempts to articulate and represent time, and how those efforts have informed shifting perceptions of time found in literary works, chapter one discusses patterns of chronosophical inquiry from ancient times to Dante, focusing in particular on those ides of time which survive today. Dante Alighieri mathematically encoded a discussion of temporal contingency and ineffability into the numeric structure of his Divine Comedy. Chapter two discusses his use of Pythagorean theories in his attempts as a finite mortal bound to temporal succession to articulate a literary representation of eternity. Chapter three discusses the impact of Einstein's Relativity theory under which simultaneity in time can no longer exist, during period of invention when paradoxically a new sense of simultaneity became prominent feature of popular culture, and time was increasingly described not as a property of the world, but a property of the perceivers of the world. This chapter traces Futurist reactions to changing ideas of temporality and the variations and manipulations of time in James Joyce's 'Ulysses'. Chapter four discusses Jorge Luis Borges' idea of temporality as an arrangement of sympathies and differences, and examines temporality in the magic realist movement as represented by Gabriel García Márquez in 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' where a temporality dependant upon individual perspective becomes lonely prospect." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 46 of 56 |
| | Author | | Patterson, Anthony
| | | Title | | The Central Importance of Temporality in the Fiction of Gabriel García Márquez
| | | Publisher | | California State University | | | Publication place | | Dominguez Hills, CA | | | Publication year | | 2004 | | | Page | | | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | “There have been various interpretations of the work of García Márquez. However, no detailed study has been made of the huge significance of temporality to his art. This thesis argues that García Márquez’ novels are complex considerations of humankind’s relation to time, and that time is an inherent and constitutive property of the art and meaning of his texts. To demonstrate the validity of this proposition this thesis examines structure, strategy and thematic concern and their interrelation in relation to temporality. It is, thus, divided into five sections: a brief introductory contextualization of recent critical debate concerning the relationship between temporality and narrative; an analysis of the temporal structure of García Márquez’ most important novels and how this relates to the overall meaning of his specific consideration of the temporal narrative strategies that García Márquez adopts and why these are significant to an understanding of his work; an evaluation of temporal themes in García Márquez and their centrality to his work; and a concluding section which examines the interrelation between structure, strategy and theme to demonstrate the crucial importance of temporality to a comprehensive understanding of the fiction of García Márquez.” | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 47 of 56 |
| | Author | | Hanson, Zachary
| | | Title | | The Lucidity within the Madness: Politicized Folklore in García Márquez
| | | Publisher | | Minnesota State University | | | Publication place | | Mankato, MN | | | Publication year | | (200) | | | Page | | | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 48 of 56 |
| | Author | | Wasserman, Kimberly
| | | Title | | The New Puerto Rican-American Literature in Spanish, Volume 1: Beyond Politics and Displeasure in the Fiction of René Marqués
| | | Publisher | | University of South Florida | | | Publication place | | Tampa, FL | | | Publication year | | 2004 | | | Page | | | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | "A thematic analysis of three major collections of short fiction by René Marqués, as well as a comparative analysis of the fiction of selected works by Marqués and texts by four major writers, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gabriel García Márquez, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Margaret Mitchell. This study demonstrates the ways in which the literature of Puerto Rico shares a literary tradition with both the United States and Latin America. Topics include a discussion of how the three short story collections and two novels function as a whole, citing important unifying themes such as Man's isolation, power and (Foucault's definition of) resistance, and the emergence of perspectivism, as well as how selected texts by Marqués relate to themes in major works of American and Latin American literature, such as the supernatural in Hawthorne's 'Young Goodman Brown' love and war in Mitchell's 'Gone with the Wind' The Ice identity in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Ice Palace' and setting and magic in García Márquez' novels, especially 'One Hundred Years of Solitude.' 'The New Puerto Rican-American Literature in Spanish, Volume 1 also questions why the literature of Puerto Rico, and in this case specifically the fiction of René Marqués, is extremely difficult to access outside the island. Only a few major research universities possess even a partial collection, making teaching, research and scholarship highly challenging. Included is a detailed account of the four-year long research process which finally yielded all materials. In conjunction with limited availability, the study offers additional reasons why there has not been an abundance of scholarship produced by and for the English-speaking academic community . One proposed explanation is that there is a pronounced fear of accepting Spanish as a major language of the United States. The study concludes that literature written in Spanish, in the continental United States and Puerto Rico, should be included in the curriculum of both English and Spanish departments as Puerto Rican-American literature." | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 49 of 56 |
| | Author | | Zipes, Jack, ed.
| | | Title | | "The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales"
| | | Publisher | | Oxford University Press | | | Publication place | | Oxford, UK | | | Publication year | | 2000 | | | Page | | 194, back cover | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | "Under the editorial guidance of Jack Zipes, sixty-seven expert contributors from around the world have come together in this beautifully illustrated A-Z Companion to combine their insight and expertise to explore all aspects of the Western fairy-tale tradition. The result is a unique synthesis of knowledge, from Alice in Wonderland to Tom Thumb, from Gabriel García Márquez (p.194) to Louisa May Alcott, from Charles Perrault to Angela Carter, from Hans Christian Andersen to Disney, making this an authoritative and wide-ranging reference work, essential for anyone who values the tradition of storytelling." -back cover. | | | URL | | | |
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| Record 50 of 56 |
| | Author | | Ruckel, Terri Smith
| | | Title | | The scent of a New World novel: Translating the olfactory language of Faulkner and García Márquez
| | | Publisher | | Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College | | | Publication place | | Louisiana, United States | | | Publication year | | | | | Page | | 178 p. | | | Volume | | | | | Issue | | | | | Notes | | (Abstract) "Both William Faulkner and Gabriel García Márquez introduce the olfactory as a focal element in their writing, producing works that challenge the singular primacy of sight as the unrivaled means by which the New World might be understood...their fictional olfactory situations and language establish a critique of the modern era, of an all-too-Cartesian modernity in the world, and point to a new poetics specifically for the New World, where there might still be hope for the memory and the promise of a land that is 'fresh from the hand of God.'" Ph.D. Dissertation. | | | URL | | | |
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