30 research outputs found
"Fun Home": Intertextuality and Literature as an Equipment for Living to Understand the Figure of a Father
Get PDF"Fun Home" is an autobiographical comic written by Alison Bechdel, which focuses on her father, Bruce, a high school teacher who works at the family funeral parlour who is unable to come to terms with his own homosexuality. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to explore, through the use of intertextuality, how the author attempts to understand the true identity of her father, while at the same time trying to purify the relationship between them. To this end, "Fun Home" is divided into four different stories, of which only two of them will be analysed: the one in which the daughter discovers the father and the one in which the author atones for the father-daughter relationship. For the development of this study, a literary theory of Kenneth Burke will be used and applied to the three different diegetic levels in the comic.Depto. de Estudios Ingleses: Lingüística y LiteraturaFac. de FilologíaTRUEunpu
La traducción de referentes culturales y variación intralingüística en las voces ficticias de «Swing Time», de Zadie Smith
Get PDFEste trabajo ofrece una traducción al español de la primera parte de «Swing Time» (2016), quinta novela de la autora británica Zadie Smith e inédita hasta ahora en España. Asimismo, se analizan los referentes culturales y la variación intralingüística del texto original y se reflexiona sobre las posibles soluciones a estos problemas de traducción.
Los objetivos de este trabajo de fin de máster son, en primer lugar, analizar la trayectoria vital y literaria de la autora, contextualizar el texto que se propone y analizar el tratamiento de la variación intralingüística en la traducción al español de White Teeth, primera novela de Zadie Smith. Por otra parte, se define y categoriza la noción de referente cultural y las posibles técnicas que se pueden emplear en su trasvase a la lengua meta, se delimitan qué tipos de variación intralingüística existen y se repasa la bibliografía básica para abordar su traducción. Finalmente, se propone una traducción íntegra de la primera parte de la novela, que consta de catorce capítulos, y se explican las soluciones que se han aplicado para mantener la verosimilitud de las voces ficticias en fragmentos concretos de la novela.This dissertation offers a translation into Spanish of the first part of "Swing Time" (2016), fifth novel of the British author Zadie Smith and unpublished until now in Spain. This essay also analyses the cultural references and the intralinguistic variation of the original text and reflects on the possible solutions to these translation problems.
The aims of this Master's dissertation are, firstly, to analyse the author’s life and work, to contextualize the proposed text and to analyse the treatment of the intralinguistic variation in the Spanish translation of White Teeth, Zadie Smith's first novel. Additionally, the notion of cultural referent and the possible techniques that can be used in its transfer to the target language are defined and categorized, the types of intralinguistic variation are determined and the basic bibliography to address its translation is reviewed. Finally, an integral translation of the first part of the novel, which consists of fourteen chapters, is proposed, and the solutions that have been applied to maintain the credibility of the fictional voices in specific fragments of the novel are explained.Fac. de FilologíaInstituto Universitario de Lenguas Modernas y Traductores (IULMyT)TRUEsubmitte
Objectivity of Maps and Language of Description in the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop
Get PDFThis paper will try to cover the ways in which Elizabeth Bishop’s writings would be connected to cartography, the art of map-making and physical spaces. It will also attempt to explain the influence of perspective in both poetry and geography and the relationship between writing and space, paying special attention to the way Bishop’s language and detailed descriptions of physical reality are able to express the defamiliarization of one’s surroundings and create a false sense of objectivity. For the exploration of all of these concepts I will be concentrating on different selected poems included in her published anthologies, choosing to focus on her poems "The Map", "12 O’clock News", "Poem" and "Sandpiper".Depto. de Estudios Ingleses: Lingüística y LiteraturaFac. de FilologíaTRUEunpu
“More Alike Than We Like to Admit”: Revising Otherness and Reenvisioning Humanity in Octavia Butler’s "Dawn"
Get PDFThis paper aims to map the complex web of intertextuality, reappropriation and redrafting of traditional notions of humanness in Octavia Butler’s "Dawn". By exploring how the novel uncovers the binary oppositions entrenched in these definitions, the study will assess their potential subversion and/or resignification in the text. Its emphasis on hybridity, symbolised in the posthuman figure of the cyborg, will thus be evaluated in light of its implications towards a new conception of humanity, and alternative ways to negotiate "otherness". The consequent findings will be simultaneously weighed in connection to Afrofuturism so as to gauge the novel’s affiliation to the genre as much as the innovations it avails. For this purpose, the analysis will draw on a variety of sources, ranging from sociological studies and philosophy to science fiction and feminist theory.Depto. de Estudios Ingleses: Lingüística y LiteraturaFac. de FilologíaTRUEunpu
Percepción polifónica y subjetiva: el estereotipo de fallen woman a través del análisis del símil conceptual en Tess of the d’Urbervilles de Thomas Hardy
No full textTesis inédita de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Filología, leída el 17/05/2024This doctoral dissertation, titled “Subjective multi-voiced perception: the fallen woman stereotype through the analysis of conceptual similes in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles”, aims to provide a linguistic model based on conceptual similes which may shed new light to the characterisation of Tess Durbeyfield, the protagonist of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891). Despite her similarities with the fallen woman stereotype—specifically, her violation and out-of-wedlock childbirth—Tess’s portrayal deviates from this stereotype, as posited by literary critics.While some scholars have acknowledged Thomas Hardy’s utilisation of multiperspectivity as an unconventional means of character presentation, a dearth of specificity persists regarding the intricate processes employed by Hardy to achieve this nuanced characterisation, particularly in the case of Tess Durbeyfield. Investigations delving into Tess Durbeyfield tend to study her final image, although they do not seem to focus on the dynamic process whereby the argued perspectives are shaped or the strategies used to achieve Tess’s characterisation. That is, there seems to be a lack of linguistic explanation as to how multiperspectivity and the uncommon characterisation of Tess come to be...Esta tesis doctoral, titulada “Percepción polifónica y subjetiva: el estereotipo de fallen woman a través del análisis del símil conceptual en Tess of the d’Urbervilles de Thomas Hardy”, pretende elaborar un modelo lingüístico basado en el símil conceptual que permita arrojar nueva luz sobre el personaje de Tess Durbeyfield, la protagonista de la novela Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891). A pesar de que ciertas peculiaridades de Tess coinciden con las del estereotipo de fallen woman (mujer caída en desgracia), específicamente ser víctima de violación y haber tenido un bebé fuera del matrimonio, este personaje se desvía del estereotipo, tal y como argumentan los críticos literarios. Para algunos expertos Hardy consigue presentar sus personajes de manera no convencional utilizando, entre otras fórmulas, la perspectiva múltiple, aunque parece que hay una falta de especificidad a la hora de explicar cómo consigue Hardy tales caracterizaciones, sobre todo en el caso de Tess Durbeyfield. Los trabajos que se han realizado sobre este personaje suelen centrarse en su imagen final, desconsiderando en gran medida los procesos que desencadenan la perspectiva múltiple y las estrategias concretas empleadas para caracterizar a la protagonista de la novela. En otras palabras, en la investigación de la obra de Hardy parece existir un vacío por lo que se refiere a los recursos concretos que generan la multiplicidad de perspectiva y la inusual caracterización de Tess Durbeyfield...Fac. de FilologíaTRUEunpu
The fantastic modernist: or Henry James's "The turn of the screw", revisited
Get PDFHenry James’s The Turn of the Screw (1898) is defined by its ambivalence, as well by the coalescence of apparently contradictory realities. It is, to all extents, an ambiguous text, which has generated a deeply controversial critical debate over the decades. The aim of this article is to reappraise James’s novella from the paradigm of the ‘fantastic’ as formulated by Tzvetan Todorov in 1970, so as to integrate traditionally opposed viewpoints. For the characteristics of the fantastic that Todorov identifies are usually understood as cognate with the more commons traits of gothic fiction; yet this article argues that the fantastic elements that Todorov ascribes to The Turn of the Screw are in fact simultaneously gothic and modernist, and thus allow for establishing a continuum of meaning that might actually assimilate critical approaches that have conventionally been deemed divergent and irreconcilable.The Turn of the Screw (1898) es un texto marcado por la ambivalencia, así como por la confluencia de realidades aparentemente contradictorias. Se trata de un texto ambiguo a todos los efectos que ha generado un debate crítico muy controvertido a lo largo de décadas. El objetivo de este artículo es revaluar la novella desde el paradigma de lo ‘fantástico’, tal y como éste queda formulado por Tzvetan Todorov en 1970, para así integrar puntos de vista tradicionalmente opuestos. En efecto, las características de lo fantástico identificadas por Todorov se asocian generalmente a los rasgos más comunes de la ficción gótica; sin embargo, este articulo arguye que los elementos fantásticos que Todorov atribuye a The Turn of the Screw son simultáneamente góticos y modernistas, y por tanto establecen un continuo de significado que puede de hecho armonizar acercamientos críticos que, convencionalmente, se han considerado no ya divergentes, sino irreconciliables
Desire, Resentment and Reprisal: Revisiting the Emotions of Myth in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
No full textThis article aims to reassess F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic The Great Gatsby (1925), taking into consideration the myth-critical hypotheses of philosopher René Girard. Specifically, this essay will analyse the concepts of mimetic desire, resentment and reprisal violence as emotional components of myth, paying close attention to how the reinterpreted mythical pattern of the novel influences the depiction of such emotions as social traits of corruption. Finally, this article will challenge interpretations that have regarded Gatsby as a successful scapegoat-figure, examining instead how the mythical meanings and structures of the text stage an emotional crisis of frustrated desire and antagonism that ultimately offers no hope of communal restoration
“De-emplotting” History: Genre, Violence and Subversion in Christopher Marlowe’s "Edward II"
No full textTaking into consideration Hayden White’s seminal argument about historical emplotment, and relating such notion to traditional explanations about the ritualistic structure of Tudor historiography, this article reassesses Chistopher Marlowe’s Edward II (ca. 1592) from the perspective of genre in order to expose how the play counter-effects the dominant ideology of the Tudor regime concerning royal authority. The encodation of historical events into the icon of romance, and the dramatic superimposition of tragic conventions upon such an iconic structure arguably confront two opposing modes of representing violence onstage, which determines a theatrical interplay of power discourses that arguably dramatizes the desacralization of kingship through the immanent representation of its sacredness. As this article argues, these dialectics articulates the political anxieties of Renaissance England from within generic categories, and it effectively subverts the well-established strategies of legitimization that idealized (and rewrote) violence, history and monarchy in Tudor England.</jats:p
La ciudad enferma: Espacio, metáfora y mito en Manhattan Transfer, de John Dos Passos
No full textInsofar as urban experience is inextricably related to contemporary Western
culture, the study of literary urban representations becomes crucial in order
to analyze the cultural and ideological zeitgeist of a particular age.
Specifically, this article aims to explore the rhetoric of sickness in John Dos
Passos� Manhattan Transfer (1925), from a symbolic and myth-critical
perspective. It this regard, it should be born in mind the fact that American
modernist literature is characterized by a generalized hostility towards
urban spaces. Such hostility is especially obvious in texts focusing on New
York City ��that most mythical of cities, [which] tends to emerge in recent
literature as hellish, or at any rate murderous� (Oates 1981: 30). In Manhattan Transfer, New York is indeed represented as murderous,
inasmuch as it is represented as the sick space of modernity. Such
rendering of the city accounts for a relationship of symbolic continuity
between urban spaces and urban communities. As this article examines, the
modern city functions as an organizational system of human relations and,
therefore, as the emblematic correlative of communitarian institutions.
Arguably, Manhattan Transfer thus shapes a (mythic) sick space as the
metaphorical extension of a sick urban community.Por cuanto la experiencia urbana no puede desligarse de la cultura
occidental contemporánea, el estudio de las representaciones literarias de la
ciudad resulta crucial para analizar el Zeitgeist cultural e ideológico de una
determinada época. De manera específica, este artículo tiene como objetivo
explorar la retórica de la enfermedad en la representación urbana que lleva
a cabo Manhattan Transfer (1925), de John Dos Passos, desde una
perspectiva simbólica y mito-crítica. Debe para ello tenerse en cuenta la
existencia de un fuerte sentimiento de hostilidad hacia el espacio urbano en
la literatura modernista estadounidense, sobre todo en textos ambientados
en la ciudad de Nueva York ��that most mythical of cities, [which] tends to
emerge in recent literature as hellish, or at any rate murderous� (Oates
1981: 30). En la novela de Dos Passos, Nueva York aparece representada
como el espacio enfermo de la modernidad. Tal representación da cuenta de
una relación de continuidad entre el espacio y la comunidad que lo habita,
pues no debe ignorarse que el espacio urbano funciona como sistema de
organización de un conjunto de relaciones sociales entre individuos y, en
consecuencia, como correlato simbólico de todas aquellas instituciones
comunitarias que articulan las relaciones entre el individuo y el conjunto de
la sociedad. Así, un espacio (mítico) enfermo �la megalópolis moderna� se
configura en el texto modernista como la extensión metafórica de una
comunidad enferma
“Himself armed with a lance:” Mythologizing Transmigrant Experience in Paule Marshall’s the Fisher King
Get PDFABSTRACT: Reassessing the notions of transnationalism, diaspora, and transmigration, this article explores the process of mythologization in Paule Marshall’s novel The Fisher King (2000) as a strategy to orchestrate transnational reconciliation. Beyond allowing for new considerations on diasporic transmigrant experience and new breakthrough perspectives on myth-criticism research, such mythologizing, as this paper argues, brings about a very eloquent and poignant metaphor for the plight of the mixed African American and Caribbean American community in the United States, whose inner feud is portrayed and eventually resolved in the novel. Effectively, once recreated as quest myth, the transatlantic journey of the African diaspora becomes in Marshall’s text the space for the reconciliation of diversity and kinship as inextricable traits of the African hybridized transmigrant identity.RESUMEN: Sin dejar de reevaluar conceptos tales como ‘transnacionalismo,’ ‘diáspora’, o ‘transmigración,’ este artículo tiene como objetivo explorar el proceso de mitologización en The Fisher King (2000) de Paule Marshall. Tal proceso opera como estrategia simbólica de reconciliación transnacional pues, además de hacer posibles nuevas consideraciones acerca de la experiencia transmigratoria y proporcionar nuevas perspectivas mitocríticas, según arguye este estudio, las estrategias mitologizantes del texto traen consigo la confi guración de una elocuente y conmovedora metáfora del confl icto que enfrenta a las comunidades afro-americana y afro-caribeña en la novela. En efecto, una vez reinterpretado como mito de búsqueda, el viaje transatlántico de la diáspora africana se transforma en el texto de Marshall en el espacio de la reconciliación entre diferencia y parentesco como rasgos inextricables de una identidad africana híbrida transnacional.
