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2. 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.”
3. Diálogos transatlanticos: Un "boom" de ida y vuelta
- Collection:
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (GGM)
- Contributers:
- Antonio Francisco Pedros-Gascon
- Format:
- Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
- Publication Date:
- 2007
- Published:
- Ohio, United States : Ohio State University
- Location:
- Library, University of Illinois
- Related Item Details:
- 262 p.
- Notes:
- (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
4. "Somatically Speaking: The Rhetoric of Disease Metaphors and Latin American Literature"
- Collection:
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (GGM)
- Contributers:
- April D Marshall
- Format:
- 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."
5. "La escritura poética de Gabriel García Márquez," Literatura Hispanoamericana del siglo XX: Mímesis e iconografía
- Collection:
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (GGM)
- Contributers:
- Begoña Souvirón López
- Format:
- Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
- Publication Date:
- 2003
- Published:
- Málaga, Spain : Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Málaga
- Location:
- Library, University of Illinois
- Related Item Details:
- 41-51
- Notes:
- Souvirón López discusses the influence of poetry on Gabriel García Márquez as an individual as well as on his writings.
6. L
- Collection:
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (GGM)
- Contributers:
- Bob Ngoueranga Mounanga
- Format:
- Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
- Publication Date:
- 1994
- Published:
- Perpignan, France : University of Perpignan
- Location:
- Library, University of Illinois
- Related Item Details:
- 373p.
- Notes:
- Ngoueranga's doctoral thesis discusses the representation of the dictator figure in three Latin American novels, one of which is García Márquez's El otoño del patriarca.
7. Asimilación de un paisaje trágico: Violencia y melodrama en la novela colombiana contemporánea
- Collection:
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (GGM)
- Contributers:
- Camila Segura
- Format:
- Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
- Publication Date:
- 2007
- Published:
- New York, United States : Columbia University
- Location:
- Library, University of Illinois
- Related Item Details:
- 377 p.
- Notes:
- (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
8. Gender and Power Dynamics in Beloved and Cien Años de Soledad
- Collection:
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (GGM)
- Contributers:
- Carlene Kristi Barnett
- Format:
- Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
- Publication Date:
- 2001
- Published:
- San Francisco, CA : San Francisco State University
- Location:
- Library, University of Illinois
- Notes:
- This dissertation discusses gender and power in Gabriel García Márquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude."
9. Memory, History, and the Contemporary Novel. PhD Dissertation in English
- Collection:
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (GGM)
- Contributers:
- Catherine Keenan
- Format:
- 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."
10. "Solitude, Signs, and Power in The General in His Labyrinth," The Cult of Bolívar in Latin American Literature
- Collection:
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez (GGM)
- Contributers:
- Christopher B Conway
- Format:
- Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
- Publication Date:
- 2003
- Published:
- Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida
- Location:
- Library, University of Illinois
- Related Item Details:
- 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."