"LA GLORIA DE DON RAMIRO" WITHIN THE EUROPEAN AND SPANISH-AMERICAN LITERARY TRADITION.
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Title
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"LA GLORIA DE DON RAMIRO" WITHIN THE EUROPEAN AND SPANISH-AMERICAN LITERARY TRADITION.
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Identifier
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AAI8501142
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identifier
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8501142
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Creator
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IBIETA, GABRIELLA.
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Contributor
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Gregory Rabassa
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Date
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1984
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Literature, Comparative | Literature, Romance | Literature, Latin American
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Abstract
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Starting with the assumption that literature, being an expression of the assimilation of other works of literature, reflects not only an external reality, but a fictional reality as well, the principal aim of this study is to place Enrique Larreta's novel La gloria de don Ramiro. Una vida en tiempos de Felipe II (1908), within the European and Spanish-American literary tradition, representative of various intellectual and cultural currents that had been predominant during the latter part of the nineteenth century. In this novel Larreta combines his passion for history with the modernista artist's cult of beauty, a hybrid characteristic that has provided ample ground for critical discussion, although not always within a proper perspective. The first chapter of this dissertation offers an assessment of the critical literature from 1908 to 1984. The relations with the historical novel are discussed in Chapter 2, while Chapter 3 concentrates on thematic aspects of modernismo (in both instances, specific aspects of La gloria de don Ramiro are compared and contrasted with those of representative European and Spanish-American novels). Hagiographical elements, a crucial feature which nonetheless had not been interpreted to any length by Larreta scholars, are analyzed in the final chapter. The study is complemented by a ten-page bibliography.
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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.
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Program
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Comparative Literature
