Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1996. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 247-268).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2004. / Supervisor: Vance R. Holloway. Vita. Includes bibliographical references. Also available from UMI.

Orientador: Flávia Cristina de Sousa Nascimento / Banca: Maria Dolores Aybar Ramírez / Banca: Marcio Scheel / Resumo: Queremos discutir, por meio de episódios escolhidos do romance Dom Quixote de La Mancha, de Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, como ocorre a representação de realidades e o consequente jogo entre ficções no interior desse romance. Partindo do princípio de que o protagonista de Cervantes, Alonso Quijano, é um fidalgo que decide se transformar em um herói de cavalaria, Dom Quixote, criando uma realidade e um personagem diferentes, torna-se simples entender a ocorrência, durante todo o enredo, do jogo entre a representação da realidade não cavaleiresca e da realidade cavaleiresca. Tal jogo se intensifica com a descoberta de que as primeiras aventuras do cavaleiro e daquele que se tornará seu escudeiro fiel, Sancho Pança, foram escritas por um historiador mouro e rodam o mundo. Ao se apresentar no enredo a ficção da própria ficção - a história criada por Dom Quixote e a escrita a partir dessa sua criação - ocorre a representação de diversos acontecimentos tipicamente cavaleirescos, por obra também de personagens secundários, ampliando o jogo no romance. Analisaremos a representação de realidades e a ficção aproveitando as contribuições de Aristóteles sobre a mímesis, assim como as de Erich Auerbach, Kate Hambürguer, Michael Riffaterre e Paul Ricoeur. Para tratar da ficção enquanto ―vida alternativa‖ do homem, utilizaremos as ideias de Vargas Llosa e, sobre a ficção como mecanismo narrativo, serão úteis os estudos de Umberto Eco, Gustavo Bernardo, entre outros / Resumen: Queremos discutir, partiendo de episodios elegidos de Don Quijote de La Mancha, de Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, como ocurre la representación de realidades y el consecuente juego entre ficciones en su interior. Tomando por principio que el protagonista de Cervantes, Alonso Quijano, es un hidalgo que decide convertirse en héroe de caballería, Don Quijote, creando una realidad distinta de la suya y un personaje también diferente de si mismo, se hace fácil comprender que ocurre, en el enredo, el juego entre la representación de la realidad no caballeresca y la representación de la realidad caballeresca. Ese juego se intensifica al descubrirse que las primeras aventuras del caballero y del personaje que se convertirá en su escudero fiel, Sancho Panza, fueron escritas por un historiador moro y que rodean el mundo. Al presentarse en el enredo la ficción de la propia ficción - la historia creada por Don Quijote y la que es escrita a partir de ésta - ocurre la creación y la representación de diversos hechos típicamente caballerescos, por obra de personajes secundarios, ampliando el juego en la novela. Analizaremos estos problemas teóricos aprovechando las contribuciones de Aristóteles acerca de la mimesis, así como las de Eric Auerbach, Kate Hambürguer Michael Riffaterre y Paul Ricoeur. Para hablar de la ficción como ―vida alternativa‖ del hombre utilizaremos las ideas de Mario Vargas Llosa, y, acerca de la ficción como mecanismo narrativo, recorreremos a los estudios de Umberto Eco, Gustavo Bernardo y otros más / Mestre

Si el siglo XX creó una extendida conciencia sobre las variantes de la intertextualidad en la ficción literaria, hoy enfrentamos transformaciones en la naturaleza de la ficción y sus relaciones con otras formas discursivas y/o creativas como el arte, y con la misma realidad, que es posible designar con el concepto de ficción extrema. Desde “Don Quijote” o “Las meninas” hay incursiones en la metaficción y/o autorrefecividad. Pero a partir de las vanguardias modernistas y de modo creciente en los estertores de la postmodernidad nos abocamos a un singular tipo de hipertextualidad que desbordando lo literario se apropia de prácticas artísticas (o lo contrario) como recurso para la transposición de sus ficciones, no sólo de uno a otro campo, sino para su inserción en la realidad: la ficción extrema. Max Aub (España 1903-México 1973), Leonora Carrington (Inglaterra 1917-México 2011) y Enrique Vila-Matas (España 1958), radicalizaron este tránsito o filtración de los imaginarios artísticos y literarios subvirtiendo las delimitaciones entre —pintor catalán Jusep Torres Campalans, junto con sus obras pictóricas, creadas como sombra o doble de Picasso. Así insertó su existencia en ciertos dominios del cubismo como un modo de meta-crítica artística. Carrington asumió un doble animal que transitó entre cuentos y cuadros y se inscribió en la memoria del surrealismo. Vila-Matas narró su “Historia abreviada de la literatura portátil” como un doble del espectro Marcel Duchamp —a su vez asaltado por otros— que reescribe la memoria del dadaísmo de tal modo que ha llegado a ser confundida con un ensayo. La revisión de las estrategias de la ficción extrema en estos autores junto con las de otros contemplados en el epilogo —Mario Bellatín, y los artistas Liliana Porter, Luis Camnitzer, José Guillermo Castillo, Ana Tisconia, Rubén Torres Llorca y Carlos Amorales— arroja nueva luz sobre sus obras, enriquece los estudios transatlánticos y revela la movilidad y multiplicación de la identidad y los deslizamientos de la ficción en la realidad como signos de tránsito a la altermodernidad.

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Thesis (Ph.D.). / Written for the Dept. of Hispanic Studies. Title from title page of PDF (viewed 2009/09/02). Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2006. / Advisor: José Gomariz, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Modern Languages and Linguistics. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed June 8, 2006). Document formatted into pages; contains vi, 75 pages. Includes bibliographical references.

One of the most salient features of contemporary Spanish fiction is the solid participation of women in literary creation, particularly that of novels. While in the 1970s there were isolated figures, in the 80s and with the consolidation of democracy, the number grew sharply; in the 90s, they multiplied their presence and their quality continues to be outstanding. In spite of the prejudices of sexist power, a good segment of the critics accepts that today a wider and more valuable group of female novelists has been capable of constructing themes, techniques and discourses differing from the predominant one. It is not about claiming that there exists an incompatibility between male and female literature, nor that there are two literatures; rather, it is about the development of individual strategies of permanence and about the persistence of different perspectives within the same human activity. In order to understand the argument raised, chapter I of the present work is set historically in Spain following the fall of the Franco dictatorship, the context of literature and the birth of the new narrative. It is not only within the local national frame that postmodern narrators are involved. It becomes just as important to consider the fall of old regimes throughout the world, the end of the Cold War and the death of communism, on one side; on the other, the phenomenon of economic globalization and the unavoidable transnational vision of cultural movements, which elements travel across the oceans and meet in a discourse about "the end of utopias." Within this framework, female writers have had the incentive of the advent of democracy in Spain, its social consequences, the social acquiescence of "la Movida" and the progress of the conquers of women. The process of cultural change in Spain is being analyzed from the field of cultural studies. However, and serving as a portrait of postmodern fragmentary thought, it is now possible to inscribe a generation of writers that have incorporated elements of audiovisual language and rock music, as well as other elements of popular culture as fundamental substance for fiction, which demands for a new critical reflection. This group has been convened under the label of Generation X. Within this emerging generation, emphasis will be made on the consolidation of female writers in the Spanish cultural setting of the XXI century. Chapter II will delve into the new literary spaces in Spain, their recent legacy, clashing points of views of literary critics and the referential frame of postmodern philosophical thought, all which is conjugated with the appearance of third-wave feminism. Chapter III analyzes the novel Veo Veo, by Gabriela Bustelo, and how it relates to the theoretical postulates of new feminism. The study of the text finds a relationship between the various perspectives taken by the narrator-protagonist in the process of searching for her identity and constructing the female subject according to difference feminism. Finally, this approach to one of the texts and one of the authors of the wide spectrum of contemporary Spanish female writers, attempts to expose that through their innovating fiction and the preponderant role and attention given to their female characters, a contribution is made from literature towards the reflections on the multiple ways in which the female subject paves its way across patriarchal society.

The problem with which this study is concerned is that of demonstrating the importance of communication and travel in the Siglo de Oro as seen in selected picaresque novels. This study is divided into five chapters. The introductory chapter includes a literary and chronological history of the period and, in the interest of clarity, a plot summary of the selected picaresque novels. The second, third and fourth chapters discuss the various means of urban, rural and maritime communication and travel. The concluding chapter summarizes the study and asserts that communication and travel were of utmost importance during the Siglo LeQ ro and that the picaresque novel, describing faithfully the society that produced it, is a valuable data source for research of this kind.

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