Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oslo, 1982. / Cover title. Includes bibliographical references (p. 412-426) and index.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oslo, 1982. / Cover title. Includes bibliographical references (p. 412-426) and index.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University. / An investigation of critics representing each of the six decades during which Benavente wrote his plays reveals a fundamental dichotomy of opinion regarding the dramatist's attitude toward human existence. One group, including Pio Baroja, Manuel Bueno, Perez de Ayala, Diaz Plaja and others, maintains that Benavente demonstrates a generally consistent pessimistic and cynical view of man and society. Some among this group believe that this attitude emanates from a materialistic, amoral and even atheistic philosophy on the part of Benavente. The other group of critics, including Gonzalez Blanco, Onis, Lazaro, Valbuena Prat and others, believe that despite an initial pessimism and cynicism, Benavente gradually develops an interest in the inner world of human existence, and moves toward a more idealistic view. The present study establishes and defines the existence of the two opposing schools of Benavente criticism referred to above, and attempts to reconcile them. Our own study, based on an investigation of the complete dramatic and non-dramatic works of Benavente, reveals that the dramatist has a two-fold view of the human condition: 1) "External Reality", or man's environment, presents him with an essentially tragic existence which man cannot alter. 2) "Inner Reality", or man's spiritual and imaginative resources provide him with the means to find refuge, consolation or escape from the tragedy of his environment. [TRUNCATED]

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Tesis para optar al grado de Magíster en Estudios Latinoamericanos / Autor no autoriza el acceso a texto completo de su documento.

Mémoire numérisé par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.

Mémoire numérisé par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.

Texte remanié de: Thèse de doctorat--Histoire des doctrines stratégiques--Paris--École pratique des hautes études, 2003. / Bibliogr. p. 669-680. Index.

The semantic organization of Normand Chaurette's Reve d'une nuit d'hopital, Provincetown Playhouse ... and Fragments d'une lettre d'adieu ... plays is quite mysterious. It requires scrupulous deciphering in order to understand the author's sense of direction. This is accomplished by studying the movement of madness, that of writing itself. This movement is heliocoidal, spiral shaped; it is a collection of repeated themes nourished with redundancies, replications, insistence and depth. The spiral symbolizes the cyclonic tendency of the characters' torment, a tendency reaching to embrace the heart of this torment. But this insanity cannot be reasonably revealed. The mystery that sustains Chaurette's plays remains complete. / This study brings out the repetitive spiral structures present in each text in order to explain their presence and their dynamic. It is an attempt to spell out what the text's language remains unable to say: the essence of one soul's insanity. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)

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