La alquimia poetica de Octavio Paz: (La) Gran Obra en transformacion y movimiento.
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Title
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La alquimia poetica de Octavio Paz: (La) Gran Obra en transformacion y movimiento.
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Identifier
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AAI3283138
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identifier
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3283138
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Creator
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Gutierrez, Pedro Antonio.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Marlene Gottlieb
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Date
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2007
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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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Literature, Latin American | Literature, Comparative
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Abstract
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The work of Octavio Paz can be considered in its totality as a complex operational and theoretical process of "signs in rotation," of textual and visual fragmented codes, connected to each other by the thematic discourse in/of constant 'transmutation' and perpetual 'motion', or poetic alchemy, in which the elements of the alchemical, strange, alien, hermetic, esoteric, anomalous, deterritorial or simply subversive, play an important destabilizing or 'deconstructive' role. This "other side" or "hidden literary history" stands in direct contraposition to the Paz's institutional side or "open literary history" reflected in the author's more traditional and universal themes of love, life, eroticism, social political involvement, his critical aesthetic interest, and his eclectic approach to the metaphysical problem of the "eternal search" for the absolute and the infinite in man. This quest is precisely the justification for La alquimia poetica de Octavio Paz: (La) Gran Obra en transformacion y movimiento [ The Poetic Alchemy of Octavio Paz:(The) Great Work in Transformation and Motion ]. The dissertation examines the importance of the role of alchemical discourse in Paz that studies of literary criticism have overlooked. This thesis addresses the multiplicity of malleable and dynamic elements that constitute the conceptual and structural foundation of Paz's alchemical writing. The central metaphor for the thematic analysis of this project is alchemical transmutation.;This eclectic and deconstructive approach is a description and exposition, and at times an alchemical narrative of the work of Octavio Paz, centered on the paradigms of transformation and motion as seen in Paz's poetry and essays. Particular attention has been paid, during the act of reading and writing Paz's alchemical discourse, to the various forms of the poet's expression in the territory delineated by his parameters of displacement and transmutation. The study traces the various ways in which a fragment of reference develops from its origin along the line(s) of discourse(s) to the end, in other words, how a particular piece of information (i.e. the influence of Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier in Octavio Paz's poetic alchemical dialectic) shows its evolution through vast territories of writing practically unexplored by the critics. Furthermore, since 'deconstruction' is a powerful critique of the traditional set of oppositions articulated by Western philosophy, Derrida's system of thought fits naturally into the study of alchemy (as it appears in Paz's work). Both share identical objectives: overcoming the limitations of the ambivalent literary and philosophical tradition as portrayed in Western literature and philosophy; the possibility of the transformation of the human condition (as the true goal of alchemy); and the empowering of the writer, and the reader, through the acquisition of a higher state of literary awareness.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
