Thesis--University of Florida. / Description based on print version record. Typescript. Vita. Bibliography: leaves 144-145.

Thesis (M.A.)--Ohio State University, 1959. / Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 1998. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 235-244). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

Thesis (M.A.)--Central Connecticut State University, 1999. / Thesis advisor: Lilián Uribe. " ... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Art in [Modern Languages]." Includes bibliographical references (leaves [82-87]).

Zugl.: Berlin, Freie Universidad, Diss., 2005.

Thesis (M.A.)--West Virginia University, 2004. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains v, 105 p. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 102-105).

The aim of this study is not to explain Juan Rulfo in the light of William Faulkner, although the latter's influence among Spanish American writers is unquestionable. Rather, I propose to specifically examine Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and Rulfo's Pedro Paramo in comparative terms, since both novels are about the conflict between human desire and reality: they deal with longings, particularly those of Thomas Sutpen and Pedro Paramo, which never achieve ultimate satisfaction, in spite of these central characters' overwhelming and obsessive will to power which creates Sutpen's Hundred and Comala in the image of each protagonist. Each character tries to assume the omnipotence of a god, once his unthinking participation in the existential reality has been destroyed by chance traumatic occurrences. Comparable metamorphic organizing images exist in the two novels: a square and a circle. They represent the protagonists' conception of a protected space/world with an illusory center, born out of desire and representing an ideal which would render meaningful Sutpen's and Paramo's existence. The heart of Sutpen's dream is an heir to continue his dynasty and Paramo is haunted by the idealized Susana whom he claims to be the reason of all his actions. However, the two fabricated worlds are eventually revealed as fictions, and the centers of both structures collapse into the dust of reality. What remains of the two protagonists is only a motionless marble tombstone in a decayed plantation and a crumbled heap of stones in a moribund village. The inheritors of the two worlds are a mulatto idiot and an incestuous couple. After commenting on some critical opinions of the two novels and their protagonists, I trace the conception, the workings, and the collapse, with its consequences, of the two worlds of desire. I follow an approximately chronologial order, although the two texts are anything but chronological.

Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, 2006. / Title from first page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 43-46).

Las raíces de la novela Pedro Páramo emergen desde la infancia del autor. La muerte atraviesa en la novela todos los fragmentos desde el comienzo hasta el final. En la escritura de Juan Rulfo, la muerte del padre es como una cuña que marca hondo cada letra. El ir tras las huellas que deja su escritura, arrastra al lector a vivencias que van más cerca de la desilusión, de la pérdida, del dolor, del odio, de la destrucción y de la muerte que de la esperanza, del júbilo, de la luminosidad. Las imágenes que surgen de fertilidad, vida, amor, paz, unidad, tienden a desvanecerse. Forman parte de un discurso paralelo, de una dualidad que se transforma para los personajes que la padecen en un refugio, en una huida, en un recurso defensivo frente a una realidad que atemoriza, fatiga o enloquece.

Tese (doutorado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Letras, Departamento de Teoria Literária e Literaturas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Literatura, 2014. / Submitted by Ana Cristina Barbosa da Silva (annabds@hotmail.com) on 2014-10-29T16:17:28Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2014_DanieledosSantosRosa.pdf: 1926539 bytes, checksum: 8f10c47adfe0eac4ed59e04f49948262 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Raquel Viana(raquelviana@bce.unb.br) on 2014-10-29T18:28:46Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2014_DanieledosSantosRosa.pdf: 1926539 bytes, checksum: 8f10c47adfe0eac4ed59e04f49948262 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-10-29T18:28:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2014_DanieledosSantosRosa.pdf: 1926539 bytes, checksum: 8f10c47adfe0eac4ed59e04f49948262 (MD5) / Este estudo buscou contribuir com a crítica já consolidada do romance Pedro Páramo, de Juan Rulfo. Tendo por base a complexa relação entre forma literária e processo social, em especial as relações dialéticas entre poesia e história, esta pesquisa centrou-se na análise das instâncias narrativas da obra, em sua relação com o caráter fantasmal e a permanência da verossimilhança do relato, que possibilitaram ao romance transfigurar em si o movimento próprio da história humana, podendo ser considerado, nos termos de Lukács, um romance realista. ____________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT / This study sought to contribute to the criticism already consolidated the novel Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo. Based on the complex relationship between literary form and social process, especially the dialectical relations between poetry and history, this research focused on the analysis of instances of narrative work, in its relationship with the ghostly character and permanence of the likelihood of reporting, that allowed the novel to transfigure itself the proper motion of human history can be considered in terms of Lukacs, a novel realistic.