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."
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
Austin, TX : University of Texas at Austin
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"The Spanish-American historical novels of the late twentieth century have shown a marked tendency to feature as their main characters many of the greatest historical figures of the region. Even though there have been a growing number of worthy literary studies about the historical figures portrayed in these novels, they have generally centered on a given historical character in one or more historical novels. There is a need for a comprehensive approach to the study of the great historical characters that are profiled in the New and Traditional Spanish-American Historical Novel. This dissertation is devoted to the literary analysis and conceptualization of the great historical characters that appear in contemporary Spanish-American historical novels. The study aims to formulate a comprehensive literary theory that seeks to explain the presence of great historical figures in the Contemporary Spanish-American Historical Novel. This dissertation is multidisciplinary in nature, involving research in literature historiography, monumental sculpture and iconography. The central thesis of this dissertation is that there are a significant number of great historical figures that are 'de-monumentalized' or debunked as cult figures in the historical novels of the region. The first chapter if the dissertation demonstrates the central thesis by profiling and discussing in depth a wide range of new and traditional historical novels that de-monumentalize their heroic characters. Chapter I formulates the theory of 'De-monumentalization in the Spanish-American Historical Novel.' The Chapter addresses the fundamental question of what does it mean to de-monumetalize a historical cult figure, and which ones can be de-monumentalized in a contemporary historical novel. Chapter I advances three distinct modes of De-monumentalization. Three outstanding historical novels and their main characters represent these modes. Chapter II of the dissertation illustrates how Simón Bolívar is de-monumentalized in 'El general en su laberinto' (1989) by Gabriel García Márquez. Chapter III analyzes the de-monumentalization of Benito Juárez in Fernando del Paso's 'Noticias del Imperio' (1987. Chapter IV examines how Cuba's pantheon of heroes (José Martí, Antonio Maces, ect.) is de-monumentalized in Guillermo Cabrera Infante's 'Vista del amanecer en el trópico' (1974). Chapter V presents the conclusions that were reached in this doctoral project.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2005
Published:
New Haven, CT : Yale University
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
"This dissertation argues that the recourse to romance in post-realist New World writing was accompanied by a re-conceptualization of the figure of the author. While it is true that American romance in its first incarnation exemplified the generic norms of romance, this dissertation focuses on a later generation of romancers, self consciously writing 'against' realism in an attempt to 'return' to romance. I dub this movement 'New World romance'; and hold that its primary innovation was to replace the traditional plot of romance of voyage, return and heterosexual union with a meta-textual plot that concerns the attempted but failed to return to the generic 'innocence' of traditional romance after the collapse of realism. In the process of writing back to romance, the writer sheds the figural trappings of the realist author and adopts a new identity. In 'the narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket' Edgar Allen Poe transforms realism from an epistemological project into a rhetorical ploy meant to dupe his readers. The author becomes a despotic figure, subjecting the reader to the tyranny of his fictions. Jorge Luis Borges explores the political consequences of such overweening authority in 'Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis, Tertius' and proposes instead a dialogical model of the writer: the author as translator. What happens when the real is no longer the exclusive property of an author, or even a government? Culture defines reality, and when cultures come into conflict, the 'Clash of civilizations' ensues. In 'El reino de este mundo' and 'Black Tambourine' Alejo Carpentier and Hart Crane manage 'the clash' by transcribing cultural conflict into musical form, thereby transforming the author into a jazzman. Finally, in 'Cien años de soledad' Gabriel García Márquez re-imagines the encounter between reader and text as the encounter between Echo and Narcissus. Arrogating upon himself the authority to condemn the reader to perpetual longing, García Márquez becomes a kind of deity, thereby adopting a role as author that reaches beyond realism, beyond romanticism to the very origins of literature in myth and romance."
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2000
Published:
San Diego State University : San Diego State University
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
73 leaves
Notes:
Leamy writes, "In tying together Joyce's concept of paralysis with García Márquez's obsession with solitude, I hope to demonstrate how religion plays a definitive role in creating the forces that drove two of the twentieth centuries [sic] most celebrated authors." (4)
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2000
Published:
Oxford : University of Oxford
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
357 leaves
Notes:
Keenan writes, "This thesis aims to examine the models of memory proposed in five contemporary novels: Gabriel Garcia Marquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude, E.L. Doctorow's The Book of Daniel, Milan Kundera's The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children and Toni Morrison's Beloved. I will interweave my discussions of these novels' ideas on memory with considerations of wider debates about repressed/false memories and memorialisation, and I will also discuss various concepts of memory found in the discourses of neuroscience, cognitive psychology, psychoanalysis, history, and literature."
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
1994
Published:
Paris, France : Univ. de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Related Item Details:
608 p.
Notes:
This two-volume dissertation is a discussion of Swedish reception of two Nobel Prize winners' literature (Claude Simon and Gabriel García Márquez). Volume one is the thesis, while volume two includes an appendix with sources and photocopies from Swedish newspapers.