Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2007
Published:
New York, United States : Columbia University
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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377 p.
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(Abstract) "Drawing on the work of such theorists as Peter Brooks, James Smith, Christine Gledhill, Linda Williams and Ben Singer, among others, I examine the ways in which some contemporary Colombian novels use violence and melodrama to make sense of the country's social and political turmoil. The historical context of the classic, late 18th century melodrama is comparable to that of contemporary Colombia in that both periods share a generalized feeling of instability, insecurity, and moral ambiguity." and "I also analyze the sociohistorical solutions these novels propose and, considering the incredible publishing success some of them have had, what this suggests in reference to the Colombian imaginaries and their attitudes regarding the State and the Colombian violence. By reading these texts through this unstudied perspective, I bring into focus a new way to read some of the contemporary Colombian novels." Ph.D Dissertation
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
México DF, México : Universidad Veracruzana Fondo de Cultura Económica
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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34, 42, 45, 48-49, 52-53, 56-57, 59-62, 65, 9
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Menton rereads every book, article, review, notes and theses written since his first stay in Mexico in 1948-49 until the present for the purpose of finding the theoretical basis of his approaches to literature. His approaches to literature can be summed up in two words: "scrutiny" and "walking." Once he began this task, Menton realized that intrinsic reading is not always enough because it could not be done in a void. As much as a reader analyzes the form of a work with all the variety of technical resources, one has to place it into its sociopolitical context as well as the literary context.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
México DF, México : Fondo de Cultura Económica
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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17, 24-29, 43, 73, 115, 130-146, 233
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González Echeverría compiles in Crítica Práctica/Práctica Crítica a brilliant set of essays, scattered before in diverse, specialized mediums, to comment with a broader audience the origins and horizons of narrative works represented in the Latin American world: Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Alejo Carpentier, and Severo Sarduy, who give a temperate and universal voice to our continent. González Echeverría concentrates on the creative zones specific to those authors to discern aspects that up until now have rarely been analyzed.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
Boston, MA : Boston College
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"This study focuses on how a dictator or a culturally dominant power can use language to impose cultural values. As an instrument of power, language is used by dictator to educate, induce, or manipulate a nation's citizens into acting in accordance with the ruling power's cultural values and beliefs. Jorge Zalamea in 'El Gran Burundún-Burundá ha muerto'(1951), Gabriel García Márquez in 'El otoño del patriarca' (1975), and Mario Vargas Llosa in 'La fiesta del Chivo' (2000), draw attention to how the use of vernacular can resist cultural imposition by employing culture-specific items in order to represent its own culture and nature of reality. When translated into a different language, culture-specific items created a conflict of meaning between the original text and the translated text. This discord arises because the translated reference no longer conveys its original message. The original significance has been substituted in the translated text for a new meaning determined by the dictator or translators ideology, usage, or the untranslable nature of the original words. These culturally loaded words are categorized into three areas of language defines relationships of power and resistance between a dictator and his nation, or between one culture and another, such as the United States over Latin American Culture. The analysis of culture-specific items presented in this dissertation will provide an understanding of how language functions as an instrument for the imposition to gain or maintain power in 'El Gran Burundú-Burundá ha muerto', 'El otoño del patriarca', and 'La fiesta del Chivo.' Culture-specific items also suggest how translators may substitute the values of the source culture in the original text for their own cultural biases when translating from Spanish to English."
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2007
Published:
Ohio, United States : Ohio State University
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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262 p.
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(Abstract) "Alejo Carpentier's theory of 'lo real maravilloso americano' gave shape to the 'interpretative community' of the Latin American 'Boom'--which dovetailed authors such as Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, and Julio Cortázar among others. Like a boomerang sent into the future, this identity 'propuesta de significado,' or proposition of meaning, was thought to be miraculously embodied by the Cuban Revolution...The transnational cross-border encounters of the 'Boom' shaped and contributed to a (post)modernization of the Spanish 'imaginario patrio' and induced a feeling of anxiety that revolutionized the relations between Spanish authors and 'their' inherited tradition and language." Ph.D Dissertation
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
Montreal, Canada : McGill University
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"There are several ways of utilizing the plurality of narrative instances in a novel; the 'stereoscopic view,' which presents an object through the lens of several perceptions, is one of these ways. This is the case of 'Des feuilles dans la bourrasque (La Hojarasca), Gabriel García Marquez's first novel, which will be the center of our reflection on multiple narratives. We will study the structure of the novel through the notion of 'parallx' which implies the fragmentation of the object by the marginalization of each one its points of view. However, it is by revealing the 'stereoscopic' character of the novel with multiple narratives that the apparent lack of cohesion of the text will be qualified. The study will conclude with the following question: Does the structure of a novel with multiple narratives raise an ethical concern?
'Ecluses' is a story in five tempos, composed of five chronologically isolated short stories, which are interconnected by a context of common events and characters. The narrative of each of these short stories is supported by a distinct character. Nevertheless, it is the sum of the characters' perceptions, due to the active participation of the reader who has the role of making the different points of view converse, that the story to takes shape and goes forward."
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2007
Published:
Massachusetts, United States : Boston College
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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(249 p.)
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(Abstract) The author argues that 'El otoño del patriarca' (1976) and 'El arpa y la sombra' (1979) contribute to the building of knowledge about the modern Latin American by presenting the possibility of an alternate accurate representation of the past and providing a proposal for a possible utopia. Gabriel García Márquez and Alejo Carpentier wrote about the people, by the people, and for the people, transforming the knowledge that Latin Americans have about themselves, their politics, economics, social standards, and culture. Ph.D Dissertation.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2002
Published:
Bucaramanga, Colombia : Universidad Industrial de Santander
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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15, 233, 267, 272, 273, 275, 276, 342, 357, 3
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Through Gabriel García Márquez's writings, specifically El general en su laberinto, the author attempts to facilitate the reader's understanding of who Simon Bolívar was.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2005
Published:
Pennsylvania, United States : University of Pittsburg
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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346 p.
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(Abstract) "This dissertation examines one of the most dynamic fields of the recent literary production in Spanish language: the autobiographical discourse. It focuses on the notions of subjectivity, identity, temporality, truth, gender, race, ideology, image, memory, body, eroticism and ideology as represented in the symbolic space of autobiographical discourse of ten key authors (Reinaldo Arenas, Jorge Luis Borges, José Donoso, Salvador Elizondo, Gabriel García Márquez, Margo Glantz, Juan Goytisolo, Pablo Neruda, Severo Sarduy, Mario Vargas Llosa) of twentieth century literary tradition in Spanish/Latin American Literature." Ph.D. Dissertation.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2006
Published:
New York, United States : Hofstra University
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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46 p.
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(Abstract) "The underlying principle for writing this thesis is to compare and contrast The House of the Spirits , written by the Isabel Allende, with One Hundred Years of Solitude , written by Gabriel García Márquez, in hopes of determining which of the two novels better establishes the "true" Latin American identity...in spite of the fact that The House of the Spirits is not intended to convey the "true" Latin American reality, but rather the Chilean reality, it will be argued that this novel, written by Isabel Allende, is the one that better establishes this idea." M.A. Dissertation