The diploma thesis attempts to identify transcendental elements of "Yzur", a short story by Leopoldo Lugones. The thesis propounds several theoretical-practical methods regarding the matter. One of the methods is to compare "Yzur" to "Persona", the work of art of the Swedish film maker and screenwriter Ingmar Bergman. The comparison of both texts is based on their complementary reading. It is possible to determinate this way the transcendental points of the short story emerging from the following interlaced levels of the texts: the linguistic level, the stylistic level, the structural level, the thematic level and the interpretative one. One of the most outstanding transcendental elements of "Yzur" is precisely the richness of the possible interpretations. Other important transcendental features include the ambiguity, the contrasts and the active participation of the reader. Key words: Leopoldo Lugones, Persona, Ingmar Bergman, transcendental

This project is a comparative study of Irish and Latin American modernisms and the literary responses to the advent of recorded sound. It focuses particularly on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman, Leopoldo Lugones's short stories "La fuerza omega" and "Yzur," and Jaime Torres Bodet's novel Proserpina rescatada. It examines how each author grapples with the dislocation of the human voice from the body made possible through new recording technology. This selection of texts displays a range of engagements with this new technology, from a critique of rising positivism and machines in the early twentieth century, to experiments with aural metaphors in the wake of sounded film, and finally to the 1930s, when sound recording becomes an arm of government surveillance against its citizens. In each instance, the circulation of sound technology causes a shift in modes of representation that require new definitions of what it means to be human in an increasingly mechanized world.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:45:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Sonia Maria Ernandes Serrano.pdf: 707957 bytes, checksum: 4259a35831c911725be5b5f3bddb3e2b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-02-06 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Esta investigación de maestría propone el estudio de lo insólito en dos relatos de autores hispanoamericanos: El almohadón de pluma (1907), del escritor Horacio Quiroga y ¿Una mariposa" (1906) de Leopoldo Lugones. Examinamos la trayectoria de las protagonistas y sus relaciones amorosas, el desarrollo de lo insólito como rastro de desequilibrio en los textos y el conflicto entre lo natural y lo sobrenatural, aflojando los límites entre lo real y lo irreal, llegando a su límite con el extraño. Basándonos en las teorías de autores consagrados, como Todorov y Filipe Furtado, estudiamos cómo ellos definen lo insólito y analizamos cómo él se establece en las narraciones. Hicimos una comparación entre los cuentos, reflexionamos y tratamos de encontrar explicaciones para esos eventos. De esta manera creemos cooperar para la aclaración de lo insólito como rasgo estético presente en el corpus de análisis. / Este trabalho propõe o estudo do insólito em dois contos de autores hispano-americanos: El almohadón de pluma (1907), do escritor Horacio Quiroga, e ¿Una mariposa? (1906), de Leopoldo Lugones. Examinamos a trajetória das protagonistas e suas relações amorosas, o percurso do insólito como traço de desequilíbrio nos textos e o conflito entre o natural e o sobrenatural, afrouxando as barreiras entre o real e o irreal, chegando ao limite com o estranho. Baseando-nos nas teorias de renomados autores, como Todorov e Filipe Furtado, estudamos de que maneira eles definem o aspecto insólito e analisamos de que forma ele se institui nas narrativas. Estabelecemos uma comparação entre os contos, refletimos e tentamos encontrar explicações para esses eventos. Desta forma acreditamos colaborar para o esclarecimento do insólito como um traço estético presente no corpus de análise.

RADKA SOTÁKOVÁ: CIENCIA Y MITOLOGÍA EN LOS CUENTOS DE LEOPOLDO LUGONES (Science and mythology in the short stories by Leopoldo Lugones) ABSTRACT The fantasy short stories by Argentinian Leopoldo Lugones are traditionally divided in two mutually exclusive and opposite groups: the mythological and the science based ones. In this paper, we analyze the short stories from the author's collection Las fuerzas extrañas and the critical papers on fantasy literature and Leopoldo Lugones to study the possible division. We base our study on three aspects: the distribution of characters throughout the book; the description of the forces that create the supernatural element; and finally on the references that appear abundantly in the collection. We observe the correlation of the three aspects with the traditionally delimited types and try to establish whether this division can be considered suitable and exact enough to capture the spirit of the short stories.

El objetivo de nuestra investigación es indagar los cambio que ha tenido el personaje de la cautiva en la literatura argentina en su pasaje del siglo XIX al XX. Nos proponemos realizar un análisis textual y contrastivo, que examine el rol de la cautiva como personaje fundacional de la literatura argentina y la importancia que ha tenido en la conformación de la Nación. En nuestro estudio son centrales los conceptos: personaje, desierto, frontera, mestizaje y cautiverio.