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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Representation of the political in selected writings of Julio Cortázar

Orloff, Carolina January 2010 (has links)
This thesis analyses the evolution of the representation of distinct political elements through Julio Cortázar’s writings, mainly with reference to the novels and the so-called collage books. I also allude to some short stories and refer to many of Cortázar’s nonliterary texts. Through this chosen corpus, I trace a thematic thread showing that politics was present in Cortázar’s fiction from his very first writings, and not – as he himself tended to claim – only following his conversion to socialism after a lifechanging trip to revolutionary Cuba. My analysis aims to show that in opposition to what many critics have argued, this crucial point in his life did not divide the writer into an irreconcilable before and after – the apolitical versus the political –, but rather, it simply shifted the emphasis of the representation of the political, which already existed in Cortázar’s writings. In order to trace this process, I carry out my analysis in chronological order, not of the publication of the works, but of the actual time when they were written. Therefore, in the first chapter, I look at some of the books written between 1948 and 1951, namely, Divertimento (1949), El examen (1950) and Diario de Andrés Fava (1951), focusing mainly on El examen; I then extend the analysis to Los premios (1960), written when Cortázar was already living in Paris. Chapter two focuses on Rayuela (1963) and the action/inaction dilemma as reflected in the novel’s protagonist. The third chapter considers a period of conflict for Cortázar, as he tries to come up with a way in which to write literature for the political revolution of Latin America, without compromising his belief in artistic freedom. To elucidate this phase, I analyse 62/modelo para armar (1968) on the one hand, and the collage books, La vuelta al día en ochenta mundos (1967) and Último Round (1969), on the other. My fourth and final chapter examines Libro de Manuel (1973), Cortázar’s explicit attempt to converge literature, politics and history, and assesses the results of this effort to merge art and politics, allegedly without making aesthetic concessions. Although there have been works analysing the political dimension of specific texts (particularly of his short stories), no study to date has analysed the evolution of the political element throughout Cortázar’s writings, from the first unpublished novels to his later more experimental works. The originality of my thesis lies in the tracing of this progression through an extensive analysis of these works. My examination is also original insofar as it refers to unpublished material – a selection of Cortázar’s manuscripts from Princeton University Library – to the most recent posthumous publications – such as Papeles inesperados (2009) – and to a series of personal interviews with Argentinian writers associated with Cortázar. This research therefore hopes to bring unique insight that will further the overall understanding of this major and influential writer of the twentieth century.
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Breves reflexiones sobre el concepto de lo fantástico de Bioy Casares en La invención de Morel y Plan de evasión: hacia la literatura medial-virtual

de Toro, Alfonso January 2002 (has links)
En un anterior trabajo sobre lo fantástico en Borges constatamos que en la discusión internacional existe un consenso básico con respecto al subtipo textual "fantástico" que se define, al contrario de la novela o cuento realista, a través de la oposición "realidad vs. maravilloso", donde se presupone que en el primer caso la ficción está siempre empecinada en imitar la realidad exactamente, en modelarla y problematizarla o en competir con ella. Según esta presuposición, la literatura fantástica, por el contrario, se basa en estructuras narrativas en las cuales se transgrede un límite topográfico y/o normativo (Lotman 1973) concebido según un modelo histórico-cultural determinado del mundo, que como tal está sometido a transformaciones y cambios y es de naturaleza mimética. Todorov define lo "fantástico puro" partiendo de las publicaciones citadas en base a la "indecisión" de lo acontecido por parte del lector y de los personajes, es decir, en base a "un événement étrange, qui provoque une hésitation chez le lecteur et le héros", lo cual implica una identificación entre lector y personaje. La indecidibilidad por parte del lector radica en la ambigüedad estructural de la obra misma. Precisamente en este punto de la discusión con la crítica sobre el género de lo fantástico nos parece que no solamente la obra de Borges difiere de esta tradicional definición de lo fantástico – como entonces tratamos de demostrarlo –, sino al menos las dos obras de Bioy que vamos a tratar con detenimiento a continuación.:Planteamiento del problema. - El concepto de fantástico como literatura medial-virtual en La invención de Morel y Plan de evasión
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Jorge Luis Borges o la literatura del deseo: descentración - simulación del canon y estrategias postmodernas

de Toro, Alfonso 23 February 2015 (has links)
La construcción y divulgación de un canon literario, sea éste en el contexto de las literaturas nacionales o de la literatura universal, provoca hasta hoy fuertes debates ya que representa algo elitista, lo más eximio de la literatura de una cultura como así también la inmortalidad de los autores. Todo esto constituye a su vez el prestigio de una país como nación cultural.:Observaciones prologómenas. - Borges y sus estrategias literarias. - Borges y el ANTi-canon: re-lecturas y re-escrituras infinitas

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