11 research outputs found
The Whitworthian 1955-1956
Get PDFThe Whitworthian student newspaper, September 1955-June 1956.https://digitalcommons.whitworth.edu/whitworthian/1039/thumbnail.jp
Angles of otherness: Subjectivity and difference in the fiction of Cristina Fernández Cubas
Get PDFDissertation (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, Spanish and Portuguese, 1998.Cristina Fernandez Cubas has published four collections of short stories, Mi hermana Elba (1980), Los altillos de Brumal (1983), El angulo del horror (1990), Con Agatha en Estambul (1994); and two novels, El ano de Gracia (1985) and El columpio (1995). I analyze these six works to explore the ongoing re-construction of identity in post-totalitarian Spain. In Fernandez Cubas's representation of the mediation of subjectivity she always subverts the limits of identity by problematizing the issue of difference--how the subject defines and distinguishes itself from others. She examines the way otherness is implicitly identified within the very subject that professes to exclude it; thus her works interrogate, reverse and finally erode the borders that define the self. Each of the five chapters of this study focuses on a separate theoretical issue--power relations, gender roles, discursive constructions of identity, spatial positioning, and visual constructions of desire--as it is played out in a collection of short stories or the author's two novels. These theoretical considerations illuminate the way subject/object relations are mediated and reversed in the author's fiction in order to reveal identity as a construct that can be altered. By opening subjectivity to angles of otherness, Fernandez Cubas's texts show how difference and multiplicity can expand and enrich the subject's vision of itself
Bowdoin Orient v.93, no.1-21 (1963-1964)
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Text and palimpsest : hypertextuality in the later novels of Juan Marse
Get PDFJuan Marse is generally acknowledged to be one of Spain's leading writers, his work having achieved both critical acclaim and popular success. Despite this author's extensive use of references and allusion to, and quotations from, others' texts, previous research on Marse's novels has largely ignored the important role played by intertextuality in his work.
This thesis explores Marse's use of others' texts in five of his later novels, viz. Ultimas tardes con Teresa (1965), La oscura historia de in prima Montse (1970), Si to diesen que cai (1973), La muchacha de las bragas de oro (1978) and Un dia volvere (1982). A general overview of theories of
intertextuality is followed by a detailed discussion of Gerard Genette's theory of hypertextuality, as discussed in his work Palimpsestes: La litterature au second degre (1982). It is his theoretical model and
terminology, together with insights from Linda Hutcheon's book, A Theory of Parody: The Teachings of Twentieth-Century Art Forms (1985), which inform the detailed analysis of Marse's novels which makes up the greater part of this thesis.
This analysis focusses on Marse's extensive hypertextual use not only of literary texts but also of films, pictures, comic books and song lyrics. It also examines the ways in which Marse signals the presence of these
borrowed texts to his readers and considers the connections in his work between metafiction and hypertextuality.
It is argued in conclusion that hypertextual analysis of Marsd's later novels reveals hidden dimensions in the author's work not previously commented on in other critical studies of Marse's fiction
Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century: Modernity and Beyond
Get PDFTwentieth-century Spanish poetry has received comparatively little attention from critics writing in English. Andrew Debicki now presents the first English-language history published in the United States to examine the sweep of modern Spanish verse. More important, he is the first to situate Spanish poetry in the context of European modernity, to trace its trajectory from the symbolists to the postmodernists.
Avoiding the rigid generational schemes and catalogs of names found in traditional Hispanic literary histories, Debicki offers detailed discussions of salient books and texts to construct an original and compelling view of his subject. He demonstrates that contemporary Spanish verse is rooted in the modem tradition and poetics that see the text as a unique embodiment of complex experiences. He then traces the evolution of that tradition in the early decades of the century and its gradual disintegration from the 1950s to the present as Spanish poetry came to reflect features of the postmodern, especially the poetics of text as process rather than as product.
By centering his study on major periods and examining within each the work of poets of different ages, Debicki develops novel perspectives. The late 1960s and early 1970s, for example, were not merely the setting for a new aestheticist generation but an era of exceptional creativity in which both established and new writers engendered a profound, intertextual, and often self-referential lyricism.
This book will be essential reading for specialists in modern Spanish letters, for advanced students, and for readers interested in comparative literature.
Andrew Debicki is University Distinguished Professor of Spanish and vice-chancellor for research, graduate studies, and public service at the University of Kansas. He is the author of seven previous critical books, among them Poetry of Discovery: The Spanish Generation of1956-71.https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_spanish_literature/1030/thumbnail.jp
