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42. Shipwreck and Deliverance: Politics, Culture and Modernity in the Works of Octavio Paz, Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa
- Collection:
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (GGM)
- Contributers:
- Todd Oakley Lutes
- Format:
- Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
- Publication Date:
- 2003
- Published:
- Lanham, MD : University Press of America
- Location:
- Library, University of Illinois
- Related Item Details:
- 3, 55, 66-67, 70, 73, 78-86, 93-94, 96n18, 99
- 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.
43. Speaking Time: Intersections of Literature and Chronosophy
- Collection:
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (GGM)
- Contributers:
- Veronica Browning
- Format:
- Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
- Publication Date:
- 2004
- Published:
- Washington, DC : University of Washington
- Location:
- Library, University of Illinois
- 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."
44. The Central Importance of Temporality in the Fiction of Gabriel García Márquez
- Collection:
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (GGM)
- Contributers:
- Anthony Patterson
- Format:
- Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
- Publication Date:
- 2004
- Published:
- Dominguez Hills, CA : California State University
- Location:
- Library, University of Illinois
- 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.”
45. The Lucidity within the Madness: Politicized Folklore in García Márquez
- Collection:
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (GGM)
- Contributers:
- Zachary Hanson
- Format:
- Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
- Publication Date:
- (200)
- Published:
- Mankato, MN : Minnesota State University
- Location:
- Library, University of Illinois
46. The New Puerto Rican-American Literature in Spanish, Volume 1: Beyond Politics and Displeasure in the Fiction of René Marqués
- Collection:
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (GGM)
- Contributers:
- Kimberly Wasserman
- Format:
- Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
- Publication Date:
- 2004
- Published:
- Tampa, FL : University of South Florida
- Location:
- Library, University of Illinois
- 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."
47. The scent of a New World novel: Translating the olfactory language of Faulkner and García Márquez
- Collection:
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (GGM)
- Contributers:
- Terri Smith Ruckel
- Format:
- Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- Louisiana, United States : Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
- Location:
- Library, University of Illinois
- Related Item Details:
- 178 p.
- 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.
48. The structure of the female characters in "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel García Márquez
- Collection:
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (GGM)
- Contributers:
- Karen Orene Hayes
- Format:
- Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
- Publication Date:
- unknown
- Published:
- Connecticut, United States : Southern Connecticut State University
- Location:
- Library, University of Illinois
- Related Item Details:
- 90 p.
- Notes:
- (Abstract) "In One Hundred Years of Solitude, the character development of the mater familias protagonist Ursula Iguarán along with her daughter, Amaranta Buendía and her daughter-in-law Rebeca Buendía are analyzed critically and theoretically through textual references and criticism...What we find are independent, desirable women subjects whose energetic determination empowers them and the society in which they live." M.A. Dissertation.
49. Twilight of the Hegemon: Images of the Dictator in the Novels of Carpentier, Roa Bastos, and García Márquez
- Collection:
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (GGM)
- Contributers:
- Jaime Perez
- Format:
- Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
- Publication Date:
- 2003
- Published:
- Long Beach, CA : California State University
- Location:
- Library, University of Illinois
- Notes:
- "The purpose of this study is to examine the image of the dictator in the literature of Latin America. The dictator, as he is depicted in the works of Alejo Carpentier, Augusto Roa Bastos, and Gabriel García Márquez, is a central archetypal icon who embodies the tragic history of anti-democratic rule in the Latin American republics. The dictator, however, also personifies the complexities and contradictions that come with military rule. The 3 authors seek to examine the dynamics of dictatorial power, but they also explore deeper psychological, aesthetic, historical, and philosophical problems surrounding the novel of the dictator."
50. UXL Hispanic American Biography
- Collection:
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (GGM)
- Contributers:
- Sonia G. Benson, Rob Nagel, Sharon Rose, and eds
- Format:
- Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
- Publication Date:
- 2003
- Published:
- Detroit, MI : Thomson
- Location:
- Library, University of Illinois
- Related Item Details:
- 110-113
- Notes:
- Brief biography of Gabriel García Márquez intended for juvenile literature.