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Gabriel García Márquez's «Eréndira» And The Brothers Grimm, Joel Hancock
Gabriel García Márquez's «Eréndira» And The Brothers Grimm, Joel Hancock
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
García Márquez's long story «La increíble y triste historia de la Cándida Eréndira y de su abuela desalmada» is studied in the light of the structures and themes of the fairy tale, particularly of the type collected by the Grimm brothers. Dimensions of special interest are the organizational framework of the narrative, the portrayal of characters, and certain motifs, all of which are strongly reminiscent of Grimm's Fairy Tales. These elements are examined as representative of those morphologies which Vladimir Propp delineates for the genre of the fairy tale in his Morphology of the Folktale.
Gabriela Mistral's «Sonnets To Ruth»: The Consolation Of Passion, Howard M. Fraser
Gabriela Mistral's «Sonnets To Ruth»: The Consolation Of Passion, Howard M. Fraser
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
As for many poets, the sonnet form presented the opportunity to Gabriela Mistral to perfect her poetic technique. This study examines in detail the Nobel Laureate's trio of sonnets commemorating the biblical matriarch Ruth. Mistral's treatment of the themes of alienation, self- sacrifice, and the search for human dignity features the contrasts of suffering and consolation which are present in the biblical narrative. But, alongside the thematic purposes which the pleasure/pain duality serves, Mistral exploits this opposition for technical and structural reasons. She uses the feelings of love and pain as an organizational device in her treatment of time, characters …
Cyclones And Vortices: Alejo Carpentier's Reasons Of State As Cartesian Discourse, Joseph F. O'Neill
Cyclones And Vortices: Alejo Carpentier's Reasons Of State As Cartesian Discourse, Joseph F. O'Neill
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Alejo Carpentier's Reasons of State is a reconstruction of Cartesian discourse that is paradoxically both fantastic and baroque in its implications. Building upon the assumption that Cartesianism is typically baroque and therefore a dynamism, rather than a dichotomy of subject and object, the novel proceeds in the form of a retrospective deathbed narrative to suggest the radically anti-Cartesian polarization of subject and object in fin de siècle Latin America by portraying its dictator/narrator as a man whose world-view, like his culture's, is schizophrenically divided between magical realism and positivist progressivism. This ambiguous narrative perception is comparable to that of the …