Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 77 for “"Jorge Luis"”.
-
Jungian dream analysis and the prose of Jorge Luis Borges
The purpose of this study is twofold. First, it attempts to provide the basis for an approach to literature according to the psychological theories of Carl Gustav Jung. Second, because Borgesian criticism lacks a psychological dimension, the thesis attempts to fill the gap by furnishing a …
-
Reading as rewriting: Miguel de Unamuno, Jorge Luis Borges and the Quijote
The relationship between Miguel de Unamuno and Jorge Luis Borges remains understudied. In this thesis I compare both authors according to their shared interest in reading and rewriting Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quijote de la Mancha. Across their vast respective bibliographies on Cervantes, from …
-
The Aesthetic Use of Philosophical Theories in The Prose Works of Jorge Luis Borges
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T06:41:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7607000.pdf: 16560402 bytes, checksum: 520ed8a643ba709b8d717195f056cdeb (MD5) Previous issue date: 1975
-
Experiments in Fiction: The Poetic Visions of Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, and Robert Coover
Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-13T15:23:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 7616159.PDF: 7046087 bytes, checksum: 05d42103ca36c0594093840dffca0801 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1976
-
Beyond postcolonial: expression of self and exploration of the infinite in the writing of Jorge Luis Borges
… In this work, I contend that Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges does have a place in postcolonial studies, although I assert that he takes postcolonialism to a new level - beyond the politically charged works of most postcolonial writers. This essay explores the effects that Borges' life has …
-
"""Imagines Mundi"": The Aesthetics of Globality in Jorge Luis Borges, A. R. Ammons, and Jean -Luc Nancy"
The dissertation concludes with a comparative reading of aesthetics and globality in Borges, Ammons and Nancy. It also indicates the relevance of studying the aesthetics of globality for discussions of globalization's impact on the humanities.
-
The imperfect librarians: myth and resistance in Marcel Proust, Johannes V. Jensen, Virginia Woolf, and Jorge Luis Borges
In Jorge Luis Borges's "The Library of Babel," a library containing all possible combinations of letters in 410-page books, man is the "imperfect librarian." In this parable of the failed human quest for meaning, the librarians become phantoms: they have acquired too clear a view of the chaos and …
-
CRACKING OUR WEARINESS AND CONTRITION: CONFRONTING THE LAST STATE OF THE HEART IN JORGE LUIS BORGES’S “THE GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS” AND JORGE VOLPI’S IN SEARCH OF KLINGSOR
… state of the world? One of the Crack members, Jorge Volpi, emphasizes human behavior as the means toward restoring the critical search for personal and collective meaning. As the group gazes back to Dante, Shakespeare, Cervantes, etc., Volpi focuses on one author in particular: Jorge Luis …
-
CRACKING OUR WEARINESS AND CONTRITION: CONFRONTING THE LAST STATE OF THE HEART IN JORGE LUIS BORGES’S “THE GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS” AND JORGE VOLPI’S IN SEARCH OF KLINGSOR
… state of the world? One of the Crack members, Jorge Volpi, emphasizes human behavior as the means toward restoring the critical search for personal and collective meaning. As the group gazes back to Dante, Shakespeare, Cervantes, etc., Volpi focuses on one author in particular: Jorge Luis …
-
El Infiel Espejo: The Short Stories of Silvina Ocampo
… of Adolfo Bioy Casares, and life-long friend of Jorge Luis Borges, Silvina Ocampo has been a major figure in literary circles of Buenos Aires for some forty years. Nevertheless, her works have received little attention from United States scholars. The study includes some biographical information …
-
Roberto Arlt : translation and the construction of genre
… realism. Though distinguished names such as Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortazar praised his work, still, Arlt has long been considered by lesser figures a marginal voice, a tragicomic commentator on life, anautodidact and journalist, a writer who could not even spell. Only fairly recently …
-
Libraries in Battle: An Analysis of the Image of the Library in Texts by Swift, Borges, and Sloan
… image of the library in texts by Jonathan Swift, Jorge Luis Borges, and Robin Sloan. Libraries are prevalent institutions in many cultures throughout the world, often known through positive or negative stereotypes. By studying texts whose time periods, subject matter, and genre all differ, an …
-
Saberes marginalizados e a escrita de outros amanhãs: emancipação e não-vidência em produções artístico-literárias
… The Invisible Exhibition e a literatura de Jorge Luis Borges, além de locutores vários presentes na pesquisa. Tais produções e projetos, elaborados por pessoas não-videntes, voltam-se para a produção de suas próprias narrativas e combate a este processo de assujeitamento, resistindo às …
-
Lightness of Being and the Burden of Gravity
… such as the writings of Milan Kundera and Jorge Luis Borges, and the work of artists Masao Yamamoto, James Turrell, and Ann Hamilton.
-
'Muchos Méxicos': widening the lens in Rulfo's cinematic texts
… this oftrepeated triumvirate of recommendations, Jorge Luis Borges has referred to Pedro Páramo as: ‘una de las mejores novelas de las literaturas de lengua hispánica, y aun de la literatura.’ Despite the praise heaped upon Rulfo’s two most famous books, when his third book of fiction, El gallo de …
-
A procura da essência e do absoluto na obra de Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
… com outros autores, como Fernando Pessoa ou Jorge Luis Borges, que situam igualmente a poesia no limiar entre imanência e transcendência, que melhor se revela a especifidade da obra de Sophia, cuja palavra poética, mágica e divinatória, restabelece a aliança universal. Simultaneamente …
-
Three women and an unmarked map: a literary journey through Argentina and Chile
… between Victoria Ocampo and Virginia Woolf, Jorge Luis Borges and Graham Greene. Questions of class, society and the after effects of Argentina’s Dirty War are considered, and Chile’s past is investigated through the open testimonies of present day Chileans. The researcher/traveller learns …
Page 1 of 4