Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina Wilmington, 2009. / Title from PDF title page (January 12, 2010) Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (B.A.(Hons.))--University of Adelaide, Dept. of English, 1996? / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 41-45).

Th. Ph. D.--Spanish--Chapel Hill, N.C.--University of North Carolina, 1987.

M.A. (English) / The main focus of study in this dissertation is the magic realism of Isabel Allende as it pertains to gender politics, specifically in the oppressive fascist regime of revolutionary Chile at the time at which her novels are set. Her narrative technique is identified and related to the environment of which she writes, with a view to associating it with the gender aspect of politics. The socio-political climate in Chile, certainly in the decades ot the 1960s and 1970s, incorporated elements of fascism, oppression and sexism: Allende successfully adapts most of her female characters to the revolution and its effects ...

Thesis (B.A.)--Bi-College (Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges) Comparative Literature Program, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references.

In this study, we interpret Isabel Allende's La casa de los espiritus as a microcosm that portrays a patriarchal society. Our purpose is to study the underlying principles that support this patriarchal order and examine the mechanisms that perpetuate it and repress the potential for change. The objective is then to analyze the main female characters since they constitute a subversive presence which is constantly challenging the patriarchal order and which is potentially capable of transforming it. Our goal is also to demonstrate that the writing of the female characters undermine patriarchal discourse. Our final objective is to examine the novel in the context of two "histories": the consecrated male history which is deconstructed here and the extra-official or alternative one that tradition silences and that is represented here by the writing of the female characters.

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Zugl.: Göttingen, Univ., Diss., 2006

En el presente trabajo, me propongo analizar la novela de Isabel Allende, La ciudad de las bestias, como una novela de formación dirigida a un público juvenil, que utiliza códigos de lo real maravilloso deterritorializados e imágenes arquetípicas para retratar el crecimiento del protagonista hasta alcanzar la madurez y obtener un conocimiento apropiado sobre sí mismo y sobre el mundo que lo rodea. Al ser una novela de formación, uno de sus objetivos es promover el desarrollo del lector: instruir y formar a la audiencia que será absorbida por la magia y la fantasía de la historia. Si bien la novela de Allende no es política, promueve una conciencia ética y una educación ecológica mediante la conformación de un sujeto ideal que es tolerante, respetuoso de las demás culturas y de la naturaleza, y que tiene la voluntad de protegerlas de las intenciones mercantilistas y explotadoras de compañías mineras y otros grupos económicos. / Tesis

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Nevada, Reno, 2008. / "August, 2008." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 86-88). Library also has microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [2009]. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. Online version available on the World Wide Web.