Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
1995
Published:
Warwick, UK : University of Warwick
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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275p.
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"This thesis provides an analysis of the works of Gabriel García Márquez and Wilson Harris in the cross-cultural context of the Americas, emphasizing the importance of myth as well as history in their attempts to explore the hybridity of post-colonial identity....Harris and García Márquez present a vision of the world in which there is creative hope for the future."
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
1998
Published:
Paris, France : University of Paris
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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677p.
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This dissertation is an exploration of the difficulties intrinsic in the adaptation to film of various Latin American works, including those of García Márquez.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
1994
Published:
Perpignan, France : University of Perpignan
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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373p.
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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.
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:
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:
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:
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:
2007
Published:
Texas, United States : The University of Texas at Austin
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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260 p.
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(Abstract) "The Paris-based literary magazine Mundo Nuevo disseminated some of the most original and experimental Latin American writing from 1966--the date of its founding--to 1968, the year its editor-in-chief resigned and the magazine moved to Buenos Aires. Despite its fame, the magazine's role in the Boom and the cultural Cold War has been misunderstood by critics, who have either viewed Mundo Nuevo as a tool for CIA propaganda (it was recipient of CIA funds for two years) or non-political, avant-garde magazine...as much of the material from the archives in the Congress for Cultural Freedom demonstrates, Mundo Nuevo was set up by the Congress as a bulwark against the Cuban Revolution, and used the rhetoric of disinterested, cosmopolitan literature to counter the Revolution's model of literature engagée." 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
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2006
Published:
New York, United States : Teachers College, Columbia University
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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213 p.
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(Abstract) "In The Autumn of the Patriarch, García Márquez presents the historic stagnation of Latin America. He also describes the underdevelopment in Latin America but offers no solutions. Since its independence, Latin America has worried about defining its future and its space in international politics; nevertheless, from the start, Latin America has had developmental problems...n The Autumn of the Patriarch, previous dictators are portrayed and dictatorships in other novels are referred to as well. We attempt to clarify the description of the mythical Latin-American monster: the dictator that García Márquez portrays in The Autumn of the Patriarch." Ed.D. Dissertation.
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
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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
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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.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2006
Published:
California, United States : California State University, Dominguez Hills
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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65 p.
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(Abstract) "This thesis argues that, fashion notwithstanding, archetype and myth provide the most compelling guide for analyzing two works by García Márquez--- One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera...the thesis emphasizes Campbell's idea that myth, a universal language, is inspired by the body's energies, a view in which lungs, heart, intestines, skin, and genitals are messengers carrying the answer to the question of human existence." M.A. Dissertation.
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:
2005
Published:
Hong Kong, Peoples Republic of China : University of Hong Kong
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
Notes:
(abstract) "This study examines the concepts of the archive and the manuscript, and how they are playfully raided by Barges, Puig and Márquez in Cervantes' shadow. At the same time, this study is on narrative theory, and also looks at Cervantes' influence on Latin American writers." Ph.D. Dissertation.
Secondary source, Dissertations and Theses on Gabriel García Márquez
Publication Date:
2005
Published:
California, United States : Stanford University
Location:
Library, University of Illinois
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243 p.
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(Abstract) "This dissertation studies how textual representation can transform violence into a force that consolidates the affective and normative structures of a community. In the works studied here, violence is portrayed as a destructive and frightening phenomenon, but also as an experience of survival that strengthens communal ties. My analysis is based on theories of the nation as an entity constructed through narratives of violence, and my focus is Colombia, a country with a conflictive process of national consolidation...works included here are a textbook compiled in 1910 to teach national history in secondary schools, a sociological study of violence as a national problem from 1962, two early novels by Gabriel García Márquez, two compilations of testimonial narratives, by Alfredo Molano and Patricia Lara, a novel by Fernando Vallejo and another by Laura Restrepo." Ph.D Dissertation.