Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
Barcelona, Spain : Seix Barral
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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22-33
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Bolaño narrates how he read an interview with a prestigious and renown Latin American writer. In the interview the author is told to name three people he admires. The author responds: Nelson Mandela, Gabriel García Márquez and Mario Vargas Llosa. Bolaño continues to write about other Latin American authors.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
Barcelona, Spain : Seix Barral
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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136-139
Notes:
In his passion to analyze what he believes is a substantial period for writing, Padilla produces a story about crack in three-and-a-half chapters, as well as a long essay against magical realism which he has no intention to publish. Padilla continues to analyze how this manifestation of crack and McOndo came about.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
Barcelona, Spain : Seix Barral
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
104-111
Notes:
Iwasaki strongly states his desire not to be compared with anybody and insists that no author wants to be compared to authors such as Vargas Llosa, García Márquez, Fuentes, and Cortázar, among others. In other words, today's authors will not be the same as these great artists from the past, and it is harder for new authors to become world-renown because of the expectations that they have to fulfill.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
Barcelona, Spain : Seix Barral
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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75-81
Notes:
Gamboa expresses his opinions on magic realism, how it has developed, and how it has been taken in by the youth. He notes the importance of Gabriel García Márquez in revolutionizing with magic realism as a literary form, as well as the significance of his most important followers, for example, Isabel Allende.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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124-150
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."
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:
2000
Published:
Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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194, back cover
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.
Gerald Martin, Daniel Balderston, Marcy E. Schwartz, and eds
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Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
Albany, NY : State University of New York Press
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
156-163
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A multidimensional exploration of the translation of Latin American literature into English, a process that is anchored in the region's colonial past and its post-independence process of developing and redefining cultural identities. In the first part, Latin American writers discuss translation, followed by translators who comment on their work in the second part. Critical approaches are discussed in the final section.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2005
Published:
Alberta, Canada : University of Alberta
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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)
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2003
Published:
Ottawa, Canada : University of Ottawa
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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."