Hamlet's Mobility: The Reception of Shakespeare's Tragedy in US-American and Canadian Narrative Fiction

This essay presents a comprehensive study of how Hamlet figures in North American fiction. Gabriele Rippl takes her cue from Stephen Greenblatt’s notion of Shakespeare’s ‘theatrical mobility’ (Greenblatt, Cultural Mobility. Cambridge University Press, 2010). This initial mobility, based on the playwright’s own borrowings, appears to facilitate, or even instigate further migrations. Rippl proceeds to give an overview of adaptations of Shakespeare’s Hamlet in the USA and Canada, thus providing an insight into the historical and cultural uses to which the play has been put by authors such as John Updike or Margaret Atwood. Phenomena such as the ‘republicanization’ of Shakespeare (James Fenimore Cooper), or his appropriation for a feminist counter-discourse in Canada circumscribe a space for the negotiation of cultural and political identities.

En torno a la recepción

Los estudios sobre la cultura y la comunicación que estaban enfocados en el análisis de los textos o en sus autores, en la actualidad, se dirigen al lector. Tanto desde las investigaciones relacionadas al público de masas, como desde las nuevas teorías sobre la lectura se adjudica un papel preponderante al receptor como sujeto constructor de significados. Nuestro trabajo intenta aproximaciones entre los conceptos presentes en las teorías vinculadas a la información, a partir del funcionalismo, y la Literatura, con relación a las propuestas de la "Nueva Narrativa Hispanoamericana"; la "Nueva Novela Histórica" y las discusiones sobre la "interpretación".

Los personajes de Polvo y Espanto : historia y ficción

El presente trabajo tiene por finalidad redescubrir y analizar una obra que recrea la lucha entre unitarios y federales, pero con una visión totalmente superadora del conflicto, a través de la mirada de sus personajes principales: Agustina Palacio de Libarona y Juan Felipe Ibarra. Además, la temática abordada se relaciona íntimamente con rasgos que son definitorios de la narrativa de Abelardo Arias. Entre ellos pueden mencionarse: 1) la calidad y fuerza de expresión de su prosa, cualidades que confieren un espesor particular a la caracterización de los personajes tanto principales como secundarios y configura un ambiente plásticamente muy logrado; 2) el trabajo de fondo que evidencia una dedicación exhaustiva al estudio historiográfico y a la precisión geográfica; 3) la simbología que se desprende de la esencia misma de los personajes. Basándonos en estos tres aspectos, analizamos tanto la base histórica como la construcción ficcional de dichos personajes, con particular referencia a su simbología, e intentaremos revelar aspectos que definen la obra de Arias como exponente de la literatura regional, pero a la vez, inserta en el marco de las corrientes hispanoamericanas reinantes.

Death Threat Letters: Allegories of American Authorship in the Age of Terrorism

This dissertation examines novels that use terrorism to allegorize the threatened position of the literary author in contemporary culture. Allegory is a term that has been differently understood over time, but which has consistently been used by writers to articulate and construct their roles as authors. In the novels I look at, the terrorist challenge to authorship results in multiple deployments of allegory, each differently illustrating the way that allegory is used and authorship constructed in the contemporary American novel. Don DeLillo’s Mao II (1991), first puts terrorists and authors in an oppositional pairing. The terrorist’s ability to traffic in spectacle is presented as indicative of the author’s fading importance in contemporary culture and it is one way that terrorism allegorizes threats to authorship. In Philip Roth’s Operation Shylock (1993), the allegorical pairing is between the text of the novel and outside texts – newspaper reports, legal cases, etc. – that the novel references and adapts in order to bolster its own narrative authority. Richard Powers’s Plowing the Dark (1999) pairs the story of an imprisoned hostage, craving a single book, with employees of a tech firm who are creating interactive, virtual reality artworks. Focusing on the reader’s experience, Powers’s novel posits a form of authorship that the reader can take into consideration, but which does not seek to control the experience of the text. Finally, I look at two of Paul Auster’s twenty-first century novels, Travels in the Scriptorium (2007) and Man in the Dark (2008), to suggest that the relationship between representations of authors and terrorists changed after 9/11. Auster’s author-figures forward an ethics of authorship whereby novels can use narrative to buffer readers against the portrayal of violent acts in a culture that is suffused with traumatizing imagery.

La literatura española en el siglo XIX, parte tercera.

La literatura catalana en el sigol XIX.--La literatura regional de Galicia.--La literatura hispano-americana.

Opúsculos críticos /

Mode of access: Internet.

Lecturas americanas

First published in La Lectura of Madrid and in other periodicals.

Spanish colonial literature in South America,

Bibliography: p. 585-650.

The American essays,

Mode of access: Internet.

World Beats : Beat Generation Writing and the Worlding of U.S. Literature /

A study of the Beat-era writers in a global context. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.