Thesis (J.C.L.)--Catholic University of America, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 77-90).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 1999. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 277-317).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Michigan, 1917. / "A list of the principal works and articles referred to": p. 5-7.

Thesis (M.Sc.)--Acadia University, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 48-52). Also available on the Internet via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2008. / Title from title screen (site viewed Nov. 25, 2008). PDF text: 269 p. ; 1 Mb. UMI publication number: AAT 3315208. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in microfilm and microfiche formats.

Thèse--Montpellier. / "Bibliographie": p. 121-126.

En sus diversos estudios críticos, Mario Vargas Llosa ha mostrado un especial interés en reflexionar sobre la teoría novelística de Miguel de Cervantes en función de sus propias preocupaciones como estudioso y novelista. Basta leer el ensayo “Una novela para el siglo XXI” que escribió en 2005 como introducción para la edición del Quijote con motivo de la celebración del IV Centenario, para constatar que Vargas Llosa “lee” a Cervantes en función de sus propias reflexiones sobre la teoría de la novela, el fanatismo o la “locura” de los personajes, la ficción y sus relaciones con la “realidad”, las voces narrativas o el problema del narrador. Pero la relación de Mario Vargas Llosa con Cervantes va más allá del ámbito teó-rico o reflexivo y se manifiesta en la propia creación novelística tal como ocurre, específicamente, en La tía Julia y el escribidor. En ese sentido, el objetivo principal de este trabajo es analizar el “diálogo” que se establece en La tía Julia y el escribidor con el Quijote a partir de la “locura” de Pedro Camacho, el escribidor de radionovelas creado por Vargas Llosa, y sus semejanzas con la del caballero andante. / In his diverse critical studies, Mario Vargas Llosa has shown particular interest in reflecting on Miguel de Cervantes’s novelistic theory in accordance with his own concerns as a scholar and novelist. Suffice it to read the essay “Una novela para el siglo XXI” that he wrote in 2005 as an introduction to the edition of Don Quijote prepared to celebrate the IV Centenario, to make sure that Vargas Llosa “reads” Cervantes in accordance with his own reflections on the theory of the novel, fanaticism or the “insanity” of the characters, the fiction and its relationship with “reality”, the narrative voices or the problem of the narrator. But the Cervantes – Vargas Llosa relationship goes beyond the theoretical level or reflective and is manifested in his own novelistic creation such as ocurrs, specifically, in La tía Julia y el escribidor. In that sense, the main goal of this study is to analyze the “dialogue” that is set between La tía Julia y el escribidor and the Quijotefrom the point of view of the “insanity” of Pedro Camacho, the writer of radio soap operas created by Vargas Llosa, and their similarities with that of the knight-errant.

abstract: Both law and medicine are interpretive practices, and both systems have historically worked in tandem, however ineffectively or tumultuously. The law is, by social mandate, imagined as a "fixed" system of social control, made up of rules and procedures grounded in a reality that is independent of language; although we know that law is both revised and interpreted every day in courtroom practice, to imagine the law, the system that keeps bad people behind bars and good people safe, as indeterminate or, worse, fallible, produces social anxieties that upend our cultural assumptions about fairness that predate our judicial system. This imaginary stability, then, is ultimately what prevents the legal system from evolving in consonance with developments in the mental health professions, as inadequate as that discursive system may be for describing and categorizing the infinite possibilities of mental illness, specifically where it is relevant to the commission of a crime. Ultimately, the insanity plea raises the specter of the endless interpretability of the law and mental illness and, therefore, the frailty of the justice system, which makes each insanity defense trial emblematic of larger social anxieties about social control, fairness, and susceptibility to mental illness or the actions of mentally ill people. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. English 2014

Michel Foucault's archaeology of the silence of madness in the age of reason circumvents the discipline of psychiatry by refusing to contest the latter on its own terms. The success of Foucault's project of giving voice to the mad is achieved, however, at the expense of neglecting a long history of resistance to the silencing of madness, to which autobiographical writings by people said to be mad have contributed. The first phase of my dissertation focuses on mind-problem memoirs published since the late 1960s, a period in which an international psychiatric survivor movement has emerged. My readings of these memoirs examine how they elaborate ways of negotiating encounters with psychiatry in everyday life, and how they reveal the contingency of naturalized psychiatric practices. The second phase begins with the identification of certain questions that are not prominent among the concerns of political activists struggling to displace the psychiatric system. In the course of articulating a critique of narrative, I introduce the phrase "order of making sense" to describe a moral injunction—to respond and contribute to narrative reason—that acts as a regulative ideal. The third phase consists of fragmentary writing about personal experiences that, in spite of being framed by competing theoretical perspectives, destabilize boundaries. My increasing emphasis on the body, understood as a multiplicity of forces that are not amenable to the formation of coherent subjectivity, opens up the possibility of a revaluation of non-knowledge and the absence of work. The fourth phase concludes a dissertation whose unanticipated discontinuities are both caused by, and a mode of expression of, persistent mind problems. With the delineation of a post-Nietzschean aesthetic of the materialist sublime, the political strategies of psychiatric survivors, including my critique of narrative, are surpassed by the intensities of unproductive expenditure. Until mind problems are no longer pathologized as troubled being that stands in need of direction, the project of overcoming the condition of internal exile remains imperative. Yet it is the anti-project of exceeding sense—through an affirmation of being troubled by eternal recurrence—that most exposes the limits of the age of reason. / Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies / Graduate

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