Informe de Seminario para optar al grado de Licenciado en Lengua y Literatura Inglesa. / The aim of this investigation is to discover and analyze the ways in which Paul Auster, through his narrative, conveys a postmodernist view of man and his environment, specifically through a recurrent theme of his fiction: Nothingness. Nothingness is herewith regarded as a characteristic of the post-modern, fragmented city- urban nothingness- and the effects of this nothingness dimension upon the city’s inhabitants is further analysed.

Informe de Seminario para optar al grado de Licenciado en Lengua y Literatura Inglesa. / Chance is a key figure in our daily lives, since we are uncertain about events in our future that may affect our health, economic stability, or personal interactions. It comes, therefore, as no surprise that chance affects a human life deeply -- as deep as a person's convictions, beliefs, and other matters central to someone‟s life-plan. If she had not missed her train, she would never have met her spouse. Had she lived in other times, she may have been a black slave in Georgia instead of an American citizen with equal rights.

Informe de Seminario para optar al grado de Licenciado en Lengua y Literatura Inglesa. / The purpose of this work is to study Paul Auster’s feminine characters in terms of their dramatic contribution and relevance as women. They will show us their strength and firm attitudes to face life’s adversities, which are conditioned by the author’s recurrent themes of chance, solitude, urban nothingness and desolation.

Informe de Seminario para optar al grado de Licenciado en Lengua y Literatura Inglesa. / Paul Auster is considered a postmodernist writer. His novels can be categorized under different genres, as, for example, science fiction, picaresque or detective novels. His influences are very wide and come from different sources such as fairy tales, his own unconscious and from a variety of writers, i.e. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Franz Kafka or Samuel Becket.

Tesis para optar al grado de Magíster en Literatura mención Literatura general / El presente trabajo tiene por objetivo ahondar en la narrativa de Washington Irving, en la obra Cuentos de la Alhambra para observar cómo la narración busca reconstruir una imagen cultural, social e histórica que surge de la contemplación de otra imagen: la Alhambra. Ahora bien, esta imagen socio-cultural e histórica, que emerge del acto de exploración que Irving realiza en la Alhambra, se concretiza como un tejido de imágenes, es decir, como imágenes textuales.

Informe de Seminario para optar al grado de Licenciado en Lengua y Literatura Inglesa. / “People everywhere have hopes, but America is the only nation to claim its own collective dream. Politicians have invoked The American Dream ever since historian James Truslow Adams first coined the phrase in 1931. In his best-selling book, “the epic of America”, he described the dream as the average American’s “star in the west which led him on...in search of a home where toil would reap a sure reward, and no dead hands of custom or exaction would push him back into ´his place`”. The phrase caught on like wildfire and endures still, though its meaning is often vague. To some the “sure reward” is a luxury car. To others it’s a college degree, a steady job that pays the bills, or a house in the suburbs and a family of four `a la Ozzie and Harriet. But the dream is above all America’s own brand of optimism, which was brought over by the first settlers and which presumes no limits to what anyone can have or achieve.”

Tesis para optar al grado de Magíster en Literatura / El presente trabajo halla su punto de partida en la frecuente referencia al concepto de lo „gótico‟ en la crítica literaria para describir ciertos rasgos de la literatura estadounidense de los siglos XIX y XX, por un lado, y de la literatura argentina del siglo XX, por el otro. Al mediar una enorme distancia, tanto temporal como geográfica, entre estas literaturas y la literatura „gótica‟ original, que surge en Gran Bretaña a fines del siglo XVIII, dicha referencia invita a una investigación sobre los elementos comunes entre las obras a las que describe y a una reflexión crítica acerca de la validez de hermanar textos de contextos tan dispares bajo un mismo concepto teórico. La explícita admiración profesada por algunos

Informe de Seminario para optar al grado de Licenciado en Lengua y Literatura Hispánica mención Literatura