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Gutiérrez, Arturo J.
Itinerarios de la ciudad en la poesía venezolana: una metáfora del cambio.
Degree: PhD, Arts and Sciences : Romance Languages and Literatures, 2009, University of Cincinnati
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▼ The purpose of this investigation is to determine the different strategiesVenezuelan poets employed to represent the city from the beginning of the 19th century to the present. This study, which is both diachronic and synchronous, explores diverse elements (symbolic, aesthetic-literary, ideological, economic, social, and political) that have contributed to this poetic representation of the city. Successive topics in this study are identified as forming the warp and woof of a tradition by which today‘s Venezuelan poetry is woven and with which it continues to engage in dialogue. More than 350 poems and about 70 poets, from Andrés Bello (1781-1865) to contemporary poets, are examined. The study comprises seven chapters, including the introduction and the conclusion. Chapter two provides the theoretical and methodological framework, as well as a bibliographical survey of the most important works published in North America, Europe, and Latin America, and of course, to the works published in Venezuela. Chapter three explores the representation of the city in the poetry of the period from the beginning of the republican era after the wars of independence to the regime of Antonio Guzmán Blanco (1870-1887). Under the Guzmán Blanco presidency, Caracas became known as the Petit Paris. It is this Caracas that is the focus of chapter four; here are studied the works of the romantic and modernist poets who lived or sojourned in the Venezuelan capital during this era (1870-1900). Chapters five and six treat the most relevant forms of the poetic representation of the city in the 20th century. The first of these chapters covers the period of the Andean hegemony (Cipriano Castro, 1899-1908 and Juan Vicente Gómez, 1908-1935). During this period, which witnessed the beginning of the petroleum era in Venezuela and the consequent acceleration of urbanization, Venezuelan poets belonging to the post-modern and to the vanguard schools reconfigured the nation‘s urban, symbolic constructs. In chapter six, the analysis concentrates on the works of Juan Liscano, Luz Machado, Juan Calzadilla, and Eugenio Montejo; these works bridge the proposals initiated by poets of the first half of the 20th century (generations of the "18","28", and "Viernes") to those formulated in the 1980s by such groups as Tráfico and Guaire. Throughout the study, several central concepts are used to frame the overall argument. Among these concepts are the following: Henri Lefebvre‘s "social space," which provides a historical and sychronous approach useful for the study of city poetry, thus enabling a perspective which I call "multifactorial" to allow for the multi-dimensional nature of this relationship; Wolfgang Iser‘s "imaginary" as a concept complementary to Aristotelian mimesis; and, Gaston Bachelard‘s concept of "imagination" as a dynamic principle of metaphoric organization of the representation. The above concepts work as elements of mediation between "reality" and "fiction" and whose participation determine the implicit processes of all possible representations of space, viz., the space of the city and of urban life.
Advisors/Committee Members: Romero, Armando.
Subjects: Latin American literature
Keywords: city poetry; venezuelan poetry; poetic representation
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Jézéquel, Anne-Marie.
Louis Dupré: Les Espaces de l’Écriture.
Degree: PhD, Arts and Sciences : Romance Languages and Literatures, 2006, University of Cincinnati
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▼ Louise Dupré is among the most recognized of contemporary women writers in Québec. Although well known as a literary critic, insufficient attention has been accorded to her as poet, novelist, and playwright. Having lived in Quebec and after conducting an interview with the writer in Montréal, I felt well prepared to explore her entire body work as the subject of my dissertation. The work of Dupré offers readers the opportunity to discover the unique position of Quebec and a literature that is dynamic and relatively unknown outside Canada. Dupré’s personal and artistic trajectories are associated with an extraordinary historical and cultural period of transition in Quebec. Studying her work affords this dual entry into a past doubly encumbered: that of a feminine voice from a traditionally Catholic milieu often stifling for women and that of a Québécois minority literature in North America. To demonstrate the singularity of Dupré’s work, my dissertation is organized around the notion of “space,” a crucial theme in Dupré’s literary work. After explaining my choice of theme, the first chapter introduces the entire work of Dupré, situating it in the sociocultural context of Quebec and outlining her unique esthetic. Subsequent chapters analyze significant “spaces” in her novels, poetry and short stories, including the countryside, the city, and the intimate space of the bedroom, the importance of the body, “familiar spaces” – the intimate, emotional spaces of father-daughter, mother-daughter relations, and the new space of contemporary women. This study also examines “spatial displacements” and the “space of writing” in which the reader encounters the writer at work. Indeed, it is through the presence of the fictionalized female writer and her intense attention to language that Dupré addresses the problems of passion, love, death and mourning. In conclusion, this study demonstrates how the internalized space of Dupré’s writing moves the reader into territories of engagement with others and the world.
Advisors/Committee Members: Gould, Dr. Karen.
Subjects: Literature, General
Keywords: Louise Dupré; a Quebec woman writer; spaces of writing
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Martinez, Manuel.
A Place of Our Own: The Representation of Space in Te di la vida entera, La novela de mi vida, Animal Tropical and Dreaming in Cuban.
Degree: PhD, Arts and Sciences : Romance Languages and Literatures, 2005, University of Cincinnati
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▼ The present study analyzes the representation of space in four contemporary Cuban novels (Te di la vida entera, La novela de mi vida, Animal Tropical, Dreaming in Cuban). For the purposes of this study, space is defined as a zone of political and cultural negotiation. This definition is based on the concepts set forth by Edward Soja in his book Thirdspace and Homi Bhabha in his book The Location of Culture. The study bases its textual analysis on the theoretical work of Fernando Ortíz, Antonio Benítez Rojo, and Gustavo Pérez Firmat. These theoreticians suggest that there is a particularly Cuban way of negotiating with Cuban and non-Cuban space. This study seeks to identify patterns of representation in the four novels and analyzes them. Patterns are analyzed in the representation of Havana, exile, and the use of nostalgia. This study also suggests a mechanism whereby one can identify degrees of representation as being either relatively closer or farther away from the model suggested by the three theorists.
Advisors/Committee Members: Picanço, Luciano.
Keywords: Thirdspace; Ajiaco; Cuba; Havana; Habana; Espacio; Space; Cuban culture; Exile; Nostalgia
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Miletti, Luis A.
La construcción y deconstrucción de la identidad caribeña.
Degree: PhD, Arts and Sciences : Romance Languages and Literatures, 2005, University of Cincinnati
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▼ Los discursos del poder y sus ideologías utilizaron la literatura en el siglo XIX para construir una identidad racial nacional cosmética. Esta creación causó una serie de anomalías psicológicas que se deconstruyen en la literatura del siglo XX. Las conclusiones de este estudio son las siguientes: a) Los discursos del poder y sus ideologías influyen a la identidad a través de la literatura. B) La literatura caribeña hispanohablante del siglo XIX crea unos arquetipos que contribuyen al trastocamiento racial de los habitantes de estas islas. c) La literatura caribeña hispanohablante del siglo XX reacciona en dos maneras: reacciona incluyendo algunos sectores de la subalternidad que no fueron incluídos en un pasado o cambiando el tratamiento de esa subalternidad. d) La literatura demuestra la pervivencia o resultados de las ideologías raciales coloniales. e) El subalterno, como grupo racial o cultural, no es un agente pasivo en la construcción de la identidad nacional. F) En la subalternidad existe una escala de poder que activamente influye a la formación de la identidad.
Advisors/Committee Members: Picanco, Luciano.
Subjects: Literature, Latin American
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Ortiz, Maria Ines.
La gastronomia como metafora de la identidad en la literatura puertorriquena del siglo XX.
Degree: PhD, Arts and Sciences : Romance Languages and Literatures, 2007, University of Cincinnati
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▼ This dissertation explores the uses of gastronomical references as metaphors to talk about Puerto Rican culture and identity within literary works of the latter part of the Twentieth Century. The narrative of Guillermo Cotto-Thorner's Tropico en Manhattan (1951), Carmen Lugo Filippi’s “Recetario para incautos” (1983), Ana Lydia Vega’s “Historia de Arroz con Habichuelas” (1983), Mayra Santos Febres’ “Marina y su olor” (1996), and Carmen Vazquez Arce’s El libro de los afectos culinarios (1996) are clear examples of the creation of a gastronomical Puerto Rican identity and culture. Using Cultural Studies, Post-colonial and Feminist Theories as theoretical backgrounds, the topic of food is decoded as a way to talk about the construction of a material Puerto Rican identity that is parallel to a hybrid cultural and racial past characterized trough these gastronomical representations. The space of the kitchen and food then becomes a way to explore and understand the reality of a contemporary culture and identity that has been reshaped through the influence of various countries.
Advisors/Committee Members: Moreno, Dr. Maria Paz.
Subjects: Literature, Caribbean
Keywords: Puerto Rico; Identity; Food; Cultural Studies; Feminism; Post-Colonialism; Cookbook
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Pelaz-Escribano, Natalia.
La Recolocació de las Esté del Escritor en el Exilio: El Ejemplo Paradigmatico de Paulino Masip.
Degree: PhD, Arts and Sciences : Romance Languages and Literatures, 2006, University of Cincinnati
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▼ This dissertation deals with the literary works of the Spanish exiled writer Paulino Masip. At the end of the Spanish Civil War, in 1939, Paulino Masip fled Sapin to Mexico. Before the Civil war, Masip was already famous due to his plays. In Mexico, he published short stories, two novels and two plays. My objective is to demonstrate how the condition called “exile” influenced on his literary production. To do so, I analyze his literary production before the Civil War and how he elaborates the metaphor of exile in his works written in Mexico afterwards. Questions regarding literary genre, textual representation of Spain, Spanish identity, his own identity as an exiled, problems dealing with the language, arise from the analysis itself. The theoretical frame is based on texts that conform the Theory of Exile, which most influential works are written by Joseph Brodsky, Edward Said, Domnica Radulescu, Johannes Evelein, etc. With this dissertation, I aimed, first to rescue Paulino Masip from an unfair oblivion; second, to analyze the impact of exile on the creative writing, and third, to incorporate the cultures and literatures of the Spanish Republican Exile into a more globe concept of “Literatures of Exile”.
Advisors/Committee Members: Moreno, Dr. María.
Subjects: Literature, General
Keywords: Masip, Paulino.; Spanish Republican Exile.; Exile.; Literary creation in exile.l
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Quintero, Julio A.
Detectives, víctimas y excluidos: Un análisis de la representación del poeta en la novela hispanoamericana contemporánea (1980-2004).
Degree: PhD, Arts and Sciences : Romance Languages and Literatures, 2008, University of Cincinnati
► Divided into four chapters, my Ph.D. Dissertation, entitled Detectives, víctimas y excluidos:…
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▼ Divided into four chapters, my Ph.D. Dissertation, entitled Detectives, víctimas y excluidos: Un análisis de la representación del poeta en la novela hispanoeamericana (1980-2004), examines how the images of the poet as priest, historian, and poète maudit are deconstructed in contemporary Latin American narrative. The first chapter is a theoretical discussion that defines the representations of the inspired creator and analyzes their influence in a corpus of novels that share an essential characteristic: the protagonist is a poet. In order to historically reconstruct the evolution of the Romantic representations of the poet, the body of texts opens with De sobremesa by the Colombian Jose Asunción Silva (written in 1892 but published in 1925), and closes with La rueda de Chicago (2004) by the Colombian novelist Armando Romero. Using Wolfang Iser’s concept of representation and the cultural imagination, this dissertation analyses nine novels in which one can observe the deconstruction or recuperation of the poet as a Romantic figure. Each section selects a single narrative that serves as the main text to be studied. Chapter two analyses Roberto Bolaño’s Los detectives salvajes (1998), which recuperates the representation of the poet as a supernatural figure who is capable of deciphering the mysteries surrounding humanity, and thus discovering the destiny of men. The third chapter analyzes Sergio Ramirez’s Margarita está linda la mar (1998). In this novel, the characters of Ruben Darío and Rigoberto López Pérez, Anastasio Somoza’s assassin, are portrayed as opponents, with the result that the notion of the poet as priest is deconstructed in political terms. In chapter four, Cristián Barros recreates the image of the true poet as a cursed writer. His novel Tango del viudo (2003) depicts Pablo Neruda, who incarnates the image of the poet consecrated by the mass media, as a poor and inexperienced young writer starving in Burma. From the era of Romanticism until the present day, poetry, and in particular the poet, served as the concrete manifestation of “literature.” Therefore, investigating the priority that Hispanic American writers give to the figure of the poet is equivalent to establishing the value placed on writing for their worldview. And since every literary text interprets its own socio-historical context in a particular way, this dissertation will contribute to a more nuanced vision of the existing relationship between literature and contemporary Latin American society.
Advisors/Committee Members: Urbina, Nicasio.
Subjects: Latin American literature
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Rioseco, Marcelo A.
Elementos lúdicos en la poesía de Juan Luis Martínez, Diego Maquieira y Rodrigo Lira.
Degree: PhD, Arts and Sciences : Romance Languages and Literatures, 2008, University of Cincinnati
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▼ This dissertation investigates the various innovations, contributions and functions of the writing forms of Juan Luis Martínez, Diego Maquieira, and Rodrigo Lira, a group of highly experimental poets who wrote and published in Chile in the nineteen seventies and eighties. These poets, who made up the Neo-vanguard, belong to a unique movement within the context of literature written in Spanish. The works of Martínez, Maquieira, and Lira, which openly break with traditional poetic forms through various proposals of a playful character, are analyzed from the perspective of Game Theory. The connections between the Hispano-American Vanguard and the Neo-vanguard in Chile are analyzed via these very ruptures with literary traditions.
Advisors/Committee Members: Urbina, Nicasio.
Subjects: Literature
Keywords: neovanguardia; maquieira, juan luis martínez; rodrigo lira; parodia; carnaval; deconstrucción; vanguardia; juego; humor; lúdico; maquinaria
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Rodriguez, Elisabet.
La heterogeneidad en las crónicas y en la narrativa andina contemporánea.
Degree: PhD, Arts and Sciences : Romance Languages and Literatures, 2007, University of Cincinnati
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▼ The thesis La heterogeneidad en las crónicas y en la narrativa andina contemporánea, is a study of the application of the term heterogeneity as defined by the Peruvian critic Antonio Cornejo Polar to some examples of transcultural literature from Perú. Cornejo Polar identifies literary heterogeneity in those literatures produced by the crossing of two different cultural traditions: the Hispanic European and the Andean. In his analysis, he concludes that heterogeneity does not create a product conformed in synthesis as the discourse of Peruvian nationality shows; rather, it is characterized by divergent and conflictive speeches that it produces. Cornejo Polar understands that heterogeneity is then, the most appropriate theoretical frame to explain Latin American societies as well as their social products like Literature. In our investigation, we take examples of literary texts that belong to colonial and contemporary times (excluding the twenties and thirties which produced comparatively little heterogeneous literature). Los Comentarios Reales by Inca Garcilaso de La Vega, Nueva Coronica y Buen Gobierno by Guamán Poma de Ayala, and Suma y Narración de los Incas by Juan de Betanzos configure the three examples of Colonial Literature. The novels written by José María Arguedas in the fifties, sixties and seventies: Los ríos profundos, Todas las Sangres, El zorro de arriba y el zorro de abajo, occupy three different moments in relation to literary and cultural heterogeneity experienced by the author as part of his novelistic and personal trajectory. Continuing with the previous indigenous literary tradition, La Guerra Silenciosa by Manuel Scorza is used as an object of study in a text, which incorporates new techniques procuring a new perspective of literary heterogeneity. In the last novel original of Laura Riesco, Ximena de dos caminos written in 1994, fiction and reality, tradition and modernity, orality and writing intersect to offer a text that focuses on heterogeneity as the central topic of the narrative. In this case, the intersection of aspects from two different worldviews contributes to build the story in which the novel is developed. The novels chosen are part of what is called transcultural Literature, a kind of Literature whose discourses come from the conflictive and contradictory discourses created by the the crossing of two different weltanschauung that confront tradition and modernity, orality and writing. At the same time, the authors live and experience their literature as a transcultural writers whose cultural background come from the tensions and encounters between these two different views of understanding the world. In our study we’ll identify the dissonances and divergent expositions according to Polar’s definition of heterogeneity. We’ll also illustrate how the authors affected by cultural and intellectual mestizaje perceive the subaltern culture as a part of their own identity. This phenomenon constitutes the main topic of our dissertation, focused on Transcultural Literature.
Advisors/Committee Members: Romero, Dr. Armando.
Subjects: Literature, Latin American
Keywords: hetereogeneidad; hibridación; cultura; mestizaje
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Rodriguez, Noris.
Política, Periodismo y Creación en la Obra de Laura Restrepo.
Degree: PhD, Arts and Sciences : Romance Languages and Literatures, 2005, University of Cincinnati
► Política, Periodismo y creación en la obra de Laura Restrepo, pretende dar…
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▼ Política, Periodismo y creación en la obra de Laura Restrepo, pretende dar una mirada al conjunto de la creación literaria de esta autora colombiana en el contexto de la realidad de este país. Esta obra está relacionada muy de cerca con la violencia a varios niveles que se vive en este país latinoamericano actualmente. Dentro del desarrollo de la obra de Laura Restrepo se observa la combinación de técnicas periodísticas con las literarias y éstas con la historia, dando como resultado obras híbridas que están entre las dos disciplinas. También estas obras están relacionadas con la activa participación de la autora en la administración pública. Se analiza esta situación. Dividí mi disertación en cuatro capítulos: el primero acerca de Laura Restrepo y su obra en general, como también las ideas generales del marco teórico. El segundo está relacionado con la violencia colombiana y en él se observa el tratamiento que la autora le da a este tema en algunas de sus novelas, como El leopardo al sol, La multitud errante y Delirio, su última novela. El tercero, trata la relación de la autora con la política y se analiza su primera obra Historia de una traición. El cuarto capítulo está dedicado a la relación entre Periodismo y Literatura y las novelas de la escritora que están más relacionadas con esta técnica y este discurso, como La isla de la pasión, La novia oscura, La multitud errante y nuevamente Delirio.
Advisors/Committee Members: Giordano, Enrique.
Subjects: Literature, Latin American
Keywords: Laura Restrepo
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Roldán, Gracia M.
Consolidación, evolución y arraigo del imaginario moro en la perspectiva hispano-cristiana-española.
Degree: PhD, Arts and Sciences : Romance Languages and Literatures, 2007, University of Cincinnati
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▼ My investigation studies the consolidation and development of the figure of the Moor in the Spaniard’s collective imagination. The historical common perception of Muslims has been formed by very negative social constructs, which were based on, and sustained by, socio-political considerations. Our concerns for cultural identity cause us to revise not only history but also our human condition. It becomes necessary to uproot the notions of purity and superiority, which are solid pillars of western ethnocentrism. For this purpose, we need to recall historical events and turn our gaze toward three key moments which came to justify the origin of this rejection of Arab-Muslim culture: 1. Entrance: The “invasion” of the Moors in Iberian Peninsular in the year 711. 2. Exit: The War of Granada and the Expulsion of the Moors. 3. Reentrance: The moors migratory phenomena in Spain. Contemporary Spanish Society, due to a series of negative stereotypes which have been historically sustained, has inherited a distorted opinion of the Arab world. This, when reinforced by mass media, tends to become uncontrolled fanaticism: fear of another “invasion,” of an alteration of the national identity, of unemployment, of terrorism, etc. Recent government declarations such as, “Immigration is the number one problem for national unity,” goes a long way to fostering a general view of fear and rejection. Thus, immigration/delinquency become part of the collective imagination and is used as if the two terms were equivalent. It is the Muslim community which despite being in the majority immigrant population in Spain suffers the greatest rejection. It is this community which lives under the most precarious conditions and greatest cultural “Rootless ness”. For the purpose of this thesis we pose a highly concrete question: Why is it that in Spain, Muslim immigrants represent a perceived threat which converts this community into the greatest obstacle to national unity, tolerance, and assimilation? As a literary answer to this question we will use a comparison/contrast study between three contemporary texts: Las voces del estrecho de Andrés Sorel, El techo del mundo de Julio Llamazares y Fátima de los naufragios de Lourdes Ortiz, with others text authored during the Middle Ages, particularly the work of Alfonso X, and other visions that summarize the period relative of the Guerra de Granada and the Expulsion of the moors. The understanding of the factors that connect immigration to negative concepts such as illegality, conflict, and delinquency, requires an identity study. As an applicable theoretical approach we propose the views about identity held by the authors Edward Said in his text Orientalism, Amin Maalouf in In the name of identity, and Julia Kristeva’s Strangers to Ourselves.
Advisors/Committee Members: Scarborough, Dr. Connie L.
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Romero, Patricia E.
El Ser Escindido En Céar Dávila Andrade.
Degree: PhD, Arts and Sciences : Romance Languages and Literatures, 2005, University of Cincinnati
► This dissertation is an intense study on César Dávila Andrade (1918-1967), a…
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▼ This dissertation is an intense study on César Dávila Andrade (1918-1967), a very well- known Ecuadorian writer who grew up in a time where Ecuador was going through a serious social-political conflict. This study includes his complete works: his poetry, essays, and short stories. The main focus on his works will be the “splitting” of the self, caused by the absorption of a foreign culture mixed in with the original (indigenous) one. This mixture of cultures is what we know as “trans-culturation.” This “trans-culturation” is expressed by César Dávila Andrade throughout his “neo-romantic” thought, which contained the worries of the being and its incapability to find a defined identity. Such incapability emerges from the fragmented Latin American subject. The “neo-romantic” thought is based on the general European concepts of the “romantic” era, concepts very visible in César Dávila’s works. The texts of Angel Rama and his readings of Fernando Ortíz, and Homi K. Bhabha on “trans-culturation” have been the ones I have used as reference for this concept. As for the “romantic” concept I have used the text of Albert Béguin, and the actual philosophical writings of Frederick Von Schlegel, and Novalis, best representatives of the 1st period of the German Romanticism. This is a topic that has not been explored in César Dávila’s works and is of interest to understand how the encounter of these cultures (the dominant white and indigenous), and the struggle of their respective class levels (indigenous-low class vs. dominant-upper class), affected the writers of his time, not just in Ecuador, but in the rest of Latin America. We can see this struggle of cultures, in writers such as Jorge Icaza, César Vallejo, Miguel Angel Asturias, José María Arguedas and Juan Rulfo. The contents and approach of my dissertation reflect the diversity of my scholarly concern, related to bring a wider understanding of the Latin American context.
Advisors/Committee Members: Romero, Armando.
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Sanchez-Blanco, Christina.
Mempo Giardinelli y la percepción de la región patagónica a través de la experiencia de un viaje.
Degree: PhD, Arts and Sciences : Romance Languages and Literatures, 2005, University of Cincinnati
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▼ Mempo Giardinelli y la percepción de la región patagónica a través de la experiencia de un viaje: De la construcción literaria del espacio natural y universal de la ‘Modernidad’ a la literatura de viajes contemporánea social y local En esta tesis se expone un análisis del género literario de viajes en relación con diferentes representaciones espaciales como ‘paisaje’, ‘región’, ‘espacio’, ‘lugar’, ‘mundo’ y ‘mapa’. A través de este análisis se tiene en cuenta que la percepción del espacio siempre ha dado lugar a una relevante mitificación del espacio. A través de la obra de Mempo Giardinelli, Final de novela en Patagonia (2000), se concluye que existe una emergencia no sólo referente a la situación social de la Patagonia sino también a un cambio en la representación espacial que se produce en los libros de viajes. Heredamos una visión mítica convertida en método científico en la ‘Modernidad’ para deconstruirla en la ‘post-modernidad’ en base a una percepción más social y local.
Advisors/Committee Members: Moreno, María Paz.
Subjects: Literature, Latin American
Keywords: Travel; 19th century; Mempo Giardinelli; maps and literary text
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Taylor, Aaron.
The Pathology of Alienation: A Psycho-Sociological Approach to the Theater of Paloma Pedrero.
Degree: PhD, Arts and Sciences : Romance Languages and Literatures, 2005, University of Cincinnati
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▼ Paloma Pedrero’s hyperrealist theater provides a glimpse into the daily existence of a group of Madrid’s outcasts as well as an analysis of the pertinent social issues that affect them. In her plays, characters suffer from numerous conflicts linked to financial and emotional alienation. Longing for solidarity and companionship, an atmosphere of rivalry and mistrust thwarts their attempts to establish effective dialogue or productive cooperation. Though role-play can bring about momentary connections, bonds are soon severed as characters fail at (self)expression and resort to mutual victimization. Spectators exit the theater perplexed since characters seem no better off at the plays’ open-ended conclusions. In recent years, Pedrero is proving to be one of the most important playwrights to emerge on the Spanish stage. The growing number of critical studies on her plays attest scholars’ interest to unravel the complexities of her thought-provoking texts. Although most critics concentrate on the theatric, erotic or feminine aspects of her writing, I believe an analysis of the psycho-sociological dimensions of her theater is essential to a greater understanding of her works, especially in light of her educational background in sociology. Consequently, my dissertation approaches Pedrero’s texts uniquely within this social framework. Although Pedrero avoids writing plays with overtly didactic messages, in La isla amarilla, she offers rare insight into the concerns that characterize her Weltanschauung: i.e. dismay at contemporary society’s thirst for material wealth and its individualistic nature. Commencing with these ideas, my aim is to delve into Pedrero’s world, revealing the influences, theories and experiences which have shaped her discourse. The three primary points of my research, constituting my chapters, include: 1) Success and failure in Western society, the marginalization process and deviancy – Merton’s theory; 2) Relationship disorders and the breakdown of interpersonal communication – Gestalt therapy; 3) The structure, techniques and reception of her works – Aristotle and Brecht. Furthermore, I address symptomatic issues within the various chapters: dysfunctional families, abandonment, unemployment, substance abuse, rage, individualism and estrangement. A wide range of novel theories pertaining to sociology, psychology, communication and dramatic arts will be covered in my dissertation and applied to Pedrero’s plays.
Advisors/Committee Members: Moreno, Dr. Maria Paz.
Keywords: Paloma Pedrero; Theater; Gestalt therapy; Robert Merton; Sociology; Alienation; Marginalization; Pathology; Theatrics; Aristotle; Brecht; Antonio Buero Vallejo; Neorealism; Twentieth-century Spain; Realism; Deviancy; Deviance; Socialization
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Terzioska, Jasmina.
Use and Abuse in the Educational Apparatus during Franco's Regime in Spain: (1936-1951).
Degree: PhD, Arts and Sciences : Romance Languages and Literatures, 2009, University of Cincinnati
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▼ This dissertation investigates the use the abuse in the educational apparatus during the most crucial two decades of Franco's dictatorship in Spain (1936-1951). These years were the most difficult, including programs, curriculum, textbooks, students, and faculty, as it endured the most control. By analyzing approved textbooks, national newspaper articles, and illustrations of this specific period, this dissertation closely investigates the new implementations and changes in the educational system after the Spanish Civil War. It also explores how Spanish literature was taught, introduced and used, especially the Poema de Mio Cid. This medieval epic served as coursework for Franco's primary school in order to mimic the process of nation building. For the propagandistic use of the literary works, we highlight Eco's theory on text interpretation, which was developed in his book Lector in Fabula. For the ideological appropriation in the educational system, Franco was able to mimic what Louis Althusser calls reproduction of the productive forces outlines in Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses. With this dissertation, I firstly aimed to profoundly study the manipulative evolution of the new educational apparatus after the Spanish Civil War; secondly, to analyze the use and the brainwashing of teaching of Spanish literature; and thirdly, to address the beneficial transmission of the interpretation of the Poema de Mio Cid in the educational apparatus.
Advisors/Committee Members: Urbina, Nicasio.
Subjects: Language
Keywords: Francisco Franco; Educational Apparatus; Text Interpretation; Spanish Educational System; Poema de Mio Cid; Use and Abuse of Literature
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VIVANCOS, TOMAS.
DEL POZO A SANTA MARIA : ITINERARIO DE JUAN CARLOS ONETTI EN LA BUSUQEDA DEL HOMBRE.
Degree: PhD, Arts and Sciences : Romance Languages and Literatures, 2005, University of Cincinnati
► This dissertation analyzes the most significant works of Juan Carlos Onetti that…
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▼ This dissertation analyzes the most significant works of Juan Carlos Onetti that have Santa María as a reference point to delineate the journey of the subject in quest of himself. The selected works are: El pozo, Bienvenido Bob, La vida breve, Juntacadáveres, and El astillero. The analysis is accomplished by using two theories; namely the theory of writing as described by Jacques Derrida in his book De la Grammatology and the theory of space claiming that everything converges in the problem of space. Chapter one provides a survey of the literary panorama of 30’s in Hispano-America—decade before the narrative production of Juan Carlos Onetti—as well as of the influences detected on his work and the posterior ones exerted by his narrative. This review is offered in order to place Onetti’s work as one of the founders of the boom. Chapter two presents the theory framework used to access the literary cosmos of Juan Carlos Onetti marked by writing. Chapter three reads El pozo under deconstructionist point of view. Chapter four is a transitional one; from the writing towards the space. Chapter five is a new incursion in the theory; this time, spatial theory. Chapter five applies the spatial theory to the reading of La vida breve; emphasizing on the creation of Santa María. Chapter six focuses on the symptoms of decay that are perceptible in the portrait of Santa María given in Juntacadáveres, and El astillero as compared to its original model. In the conclusion, the study concludes with the delineation of a journey that goes from the necessity to comprehend to the comprehension of the impossibility of comprehending; i.e., the portray of a human being doomed to wander in a labyrinth too complex to his limited intellect.
Advisors/Committee Members: Giordano, Dr. Enrique.
Subjects: Literature, Latin American
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