Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
March 2004
Published:
New York, NY : New York University
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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."
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.
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(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.
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.
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(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.