With the rise of fascism in Europe. many writers found they could no longer voice their opinions freely. Aside from the threat of imprisonment or death, strict censors were put into place, so any criticism of the regime had to be disguised. Nevertheless, some writers were able to bypass the censors and offer criticism of the regime in power. The authors warn against the techniques used like mass propaganda, aggressive approaches to war, and extreme nationalism in their literature. By examining the literature that appeared under fascism, this thesis attempts to establish a cross-cultural connection between Italy and Spain through two unique authors and their highly personalized criticism by examining Carlo Emilio Gadda's La cognizione del dolore and Carmen Laforet's Nada. Gadda uses autobiographical references in his works as symbols of Mussolini's fascism, and Laforet is able to capture the female perspective of life under Franco's rule due to her unique upbringing in the Canaries. In distressing political times they were able to relate the situation to their own lives and by doing so find a creative outlet to oppose fascism. In the case of these authors, it is essential to consider their biographies to fully comprehend their workst due to the personalized approach to criticism, which allows for a more complete reading of the text. With this comparative study I hope to bring more attention to these authors through an emphasis on the value of literary opposition to fascism in the context of history.

In 2007, Nuria Azancot published an article in the magazine El Cultural in which she identified a burgeoning group of Spanish writers that she referred to as the “Nocilla Generation.” The catalyst behind the article was a literary reunion that took place weeks before in Seville and brought together authors from all parts of Spain to talk about the status and future of writing. She described them as “transgressors” and “bloggers” who hybridized literary genres and held a revolutionary approach to the literary that was clearly marked by the Internet. Numerous articles and dissertations have since highlighted the impact that technology has had on the literature of this generation and how the Internet has allowed these authors a very active presence on social media. Few of these critical examinations have engaged in close textual analyses of the works of this so-called “Nocilla Generation” of writers. This dissertation engages with these issues for the purpose of exploring three main points. First, it seeks to identify and examine the role of the Internet on the literary production of Agustín Fernández Mallo, Alberto Olmos and Vicente Luis Mora. Second, it looks at the way that the internetization of literature implicitly undermines the traditional understanding of authorship. Third, the project suggests that the concept of an author as the source of an original creation should be replaced with a “re-wreader” (a blend of reader and writer infused with the repetitive nature of the prefix “re.”). The main thesis of this dissertation is that the interneticized text gives rise to a new understanding of authorship that is best captured in the figure of a re-wreader writing re-wreaderly texts that echo the ideas of the readerly and writerly from Barthes. The result: a textual space at once strange yet familiar in which a search for meaning, textual stability or origins gives itself over to the pleasure of the search, a search for something or nothing, a search for the search, a search in which all the material of the world (printed and digital) is there to be used and repackaged into a new literary creation.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Kutztown State College, 1974. / Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2851. Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaf xviii).

Thesis (M.A.)--Kutztown State College, 1974. / Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2852. Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 47-48).

It will be the purpose of this thesis to comment upon the five novels by Gironella published to date, with special consideration given to the religious aspects which are found in them. Gironella's attitude toward the Catholic Church and its representatives will also be examined, particularly in regard to the role which the Church and its priests played in the Civil War.

This work studies the arguments of eleven of Manuel Ortiz de Pinedo's works, which the author considers as a matter of research and worthy of criticism and analysis on everything related to their themes, characters and resources used by the playwright.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2007.

Thèse pour obtenir le grade de Docteur de l'Université de Paris III, Études Hispaniques et Hispano-Américaines. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thèse pour obtenir le grade de Docteur de l'Université de Paris III, Études Hispaniques et Hispano-Américaines. / Includes bibliographical references.