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Guided interpretations and the importance of signs: Text, reader, and author in Carlos Fuentes and Jorge Luis Borges
Title
Guided interpretations and the importance of signs: Text, reader, and author in Carlos Fuentes and Jorge Luis Borges.
Creator
Biasetti, Giada, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
Abstract/Description
The purpose of the following thesis is to apply Umberto Eco's concepts included in his essay Intentio Lectoris, the Peircean notions of the relationship between the object, the sign, and the interpretant, and other essays that deal with the relationship between the reader, the text, and the author to two Latin American works of literature: one Mexican, Carlos Fuentes's "Chac Mool" and one Argentinean, Jorge Luis Borges's "Las ruinas circulares." The objective is to discuss the structural...
Show moreThe purpose of the following thesis is to apply Umberto Eco's concepts included in his essay Intentio Lectoris, the Peircean notions of the relationship between the object, the sign, and the interpretant, and other essays that deal with the relationship between the reader, the text, and the author to two Latin American works of literature: one Mexican, Carlos Fuentes's "Chac Mool" and one Argentinean, Jorge Luis Borges's "Las ruinas circulares." The objective is to discuss the structural devices that guide the reader through particular interpretations, analyze the sociohistorical agents that influence the author as well as the reader, and pinpoint the difference between two possible types of interpretation, political and symbolic, based on two concepts pertaining respectively to "Chac Mool" and "Las ruinas circulares:" the statue of Chac Mool as the symbol of the Pre-Colombian traditional values and the dream as a symbol of the process of writing.
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Date Issued
2005
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13248
Subject Headings
Literature, Comparative, Literature, Latin American
Format
Document (PDF)
Sartre's existentialist Oresteia
Title
Sartre's existentialist Oresteia.
Creator
Benham, Timothy Lee., Florida Atlantic University, Hokenson, Jan W., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
Abstract/Description
Les Mouches is a modern reconstruction of the ancient myth embodied in the The Oresteia of Aeschylus. Jean-Paul Sartre not only rewrote the legend of Orestes; he remodeled it. Orestes is not just a new man; he is his own man. The play, therefore, is not a mere pastiche in modern dress. Sartre infuses Orestes with an unprecendented "Existentialist" consciousness, and this transformation adds new complexities to the ancient text. This Existentialist reworking of Hellenistic images is...
Show moreLes Mouches is a modern reconstruction of the ancient myth embodied in the The Oresteia of Aeschylus. Jean-Paul Sartre not only rewrote the legend of Orestes; he remodeled it. Orestes is not just a new man; he is his own man. The play, therefore, is not a mere pastiche in modern dress. Sartre infuses Orestes with an unprecendented "Existentialist" consciousness, and this transformation adds new complexities to the ancient text. This Existentialist reworking of Hellenistic images is distinguished from the classically "tragic" elements in Aeschylus as well as later modifications in Sophocles and Euripides. Sartre's early introduction into the lore of Hellenism is considered, and a discussion of Sartre's theoretical and philosophical perspective on theater suggests which Greek elements Sartre was disposed to incorporate into his script.
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Date Issued
1990
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14607
Subject Headings
Literature, Classical, Literature, Comparative, Literature, Romance
Format
Document (PDF)
significance of old French manuscript evidence for seeking all sources of "The Romaunt of the Rose"
Title
The significance of old French manuscript evidence for seeking all sources of "The Romaunt of the Rose".
Creator
Balis, Nathaniel Cogswell, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
Abstract/Description
The search for all sources of The Romaunt of the Rose, the fourteenth-century English version of Le roman de la Rose, focuses on Geoffrey Chaucer. The authorship controversy is so divisive that prominent medievalists like Huot, Hult, Robertson, and Badel write long volumes on the Roman's influence without mentioning the Romaunt. Comparing Geissman's list of rime-borrowings with both poems' concordances is the only way to end the debate, because Chaucer is the likeliest author and one must...
Show moreThe search for all sources of The Romaunt of the Rose, the fourteenth-century English version of Le roman de la Rose, focuses on Geoffrey Chaucer. The authorship controversy is so divisive that prominent medievalists like Huot, Hult, Robertson, and Badel write long volumes on the Roman's influence without mentioning the Romaunt. Comparing Geissman's list of rime-borrowings with both poems' concordances is the only way to end the debate, because Chaucer is the likeliest author and one must start with the most compatible French and English texts. At present, the best way to test Geoffrey Chaucer's authorship of the Middle English Romaunt is through close examination of the French rime-borrowings most orthoepically comparable in both languages that the Middle English writer occasionally chose to translate rather than borrow. This selective borrowing suggests the translator's attempt to bring each term slowly into the English mainstream, by using it at first only in its literal sense.
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Date Issued
1994
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15032
Subject Headings
Language, Linguistics, Literature, Comparative, Literature, Medieval
Format
Document (PDF)
Jean Cocteau and Federico Garcia Lorca: The search for identity
Title
Jean Cocteau and Federico Garcia Lorca: The search for identity.
Creator
Brand, Genevieve, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
Abstract/Description
The traditional, realist, dramatic concept of coherent character identity is ruptured by the two plays Les Chevaliers de la table ronde and El publico. Cocteau's and Lorca's works, which are usually labeled as surrealist due to their apparently disjointed nature, are actually embodiments of the poet-playwrights' continuing attempts to reveal that identity, including gendered identity, is a performance. The metadramatic elements of the plays such as discourse, costumes and gender are unstable...
Show moreThe traditional, realist, dramatic concept of coherent character identity is ruptured by the two plays Les Chevaliers de la table ronde and El publico. Cocteau's and Lorca's works, which are usually labeled as surrealist due to their apparently disjointed nature, are actually embodiments of the poet-playwrights' continuing attempts to reveal that identity, including gendered identity, is a performance. The metadramatic elements of the plays such as discourse, costumes and gender are unstable and voluntarily changeable; they have repercussions beyond the proscenium. Cocteau and Lorca invite their audiences to consider the performative nature of their identities.
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Date Issued
1997
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15480
Subject Headings
Literature, Comparative, Literature, Romance, Theater
Format
Document (PDF)