Pensamiento politico y heterodoxia literaria en Francisco Umbral, cronista de la transicion
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Title
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Pensamiento politico y heterodoxia literaria en Francisco Umbral, cronista de la transicion
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Identifier
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d_2009_2013:5f751e52a609:11008
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identifier
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11383
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Creator
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Dominguez-Ramos, Noelia,
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Contributor
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William M. Sherzer
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Date
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2011
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Language
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Spanish
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Romance literature
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Abstract
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The objective of this research is the study of the journalistic/literary texts of the Spanish writer Francisco Umbral within the political context of the Spanish transition to democracy, focusing mainly on two aspects. In the first approach, we examine the causes that brought about the marginalization of Umbral's work from the contemporary literary canon, which have been divided into two, with regard to both formal and extraliterary factors. In the case of the first, we find the difficulty in cataloguing Umbral's novels because of their continued use of gender heterodoxy. Besides that, his linking of a prosaic quality and a composite construction of a journalistic column has tended to obscure the verbal beauty of his poetic prose and the originality that is brought about by the simultaneity of a literary creation that is directed toward the sociopolitical events of a changing Spain. On the other hand, the extraliterary factors are related to a public image of a polemical and bad-tempered writer in constant confrontation with academia, in addition to the proliferation of his literary production and his manifest interest in benefiting from his work as a writer. Secondly, this study constitutes an attempt to trace the map of Francisco Umbral's political thought with respect to the institutional changes that came about following the death of Francisco Franco, with the objective of understanding the relevance the author had as a "generator of opinion" with his daily columns. This study illustrates the fact that from Umbral's work is born a firm opposition to those who had the intention of convincing the population that the schizophrenia suffered after four decades of cultural isolation and political repression had been overcome with the arrival of democracy. As a consequence, Umbral expressed an exacerbated skepticism with regard to the supposed political and social modernization with which Spain presented itself to the international scene, based primarily on the urgency with which the institutional changes were developed, the country's consistent incapacity to overcome its history, and the continuous recourse to a feeling of victimization, self-compassion, and an inferiority complex when faced with a more "westernized" and democratic Europe.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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2009_2013.csv
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Hispanic & Luso Brazilian Literatures & Languages
