PROCESO TEXTUAL Y DESINTEGRACION NARRATIVA EN LA NOVELISTICA DE ALVARO CUNQUEIRO. (SPANISH TEXT).
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Title
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PROCESO TEXTUAL Y DESINTEGRACION NARRATIVA EN LA NOVELISTICA DE ALVARO CUNQUEIRO. (SPANISH TEXT).
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Identifier
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AAI8713761
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identifier
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8713761
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Creator
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GONZALEZ-MILLAN, JUAN F.
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Contributor
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Thomas Mermall
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Date
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1987
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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, Romance
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Abstract
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The narrative production of Alvaro Cunqueiro presents a very interesting case for the study of the complex mechanisms which configurate the textuality of the novel as a genre. In spite of the multiple statements projecting an image of Cunqueiro as "fabulador nato", a close reading of the textual process of his novels demonstrates a different reality. His conception of the literary text is one that is better described as interrogative, filled with tensions, and in a constant tendency towards disintegration.;Limited to his seven novels, this study intends to go beyond the narratological approach, looking for a new critical and analytic framework able to explain the complexity of the narrative discourse as it is organized and conceived by Cunqueiro. What emerges from the different elements that can be abstracted from his narrative production is a strikingly innovative experiment in the limits and resources of fictional discourse. In this perspective Cunqueiro's work may be seen as a challange to most of the Spanish Post-War novelistic production. His writing is based on a internal set of dynamics (intratextual and intertextual) whose dominant characteristic seems to be a self-renewing and self-generating text. The resulting fictional world appears to be self-sufficient, but in reality it opens out onto an intertextual system that Cunqueiro retextualizes, through parody, into a new textual configuration.;Exploring and redefining some basic critical principles (narrative voice, narrative and textual processes, macrotextuality and the intratextual as well as the intertextual dynamics, along with the limits of fictional discourse), the critical analysis of Cunqueiro's work allows for the juxtaposition of the representational assumption that narrative is taken from "actuality" against the constitutive insistence that discourse creates fictive worlds in which the reader may feel at home. Keeping distance from the literary forms which tend to efface their own textuality, their existence as discourse, Cunqueiro prefers those which explicitly draw attention to it, by employing devices that undermine the narrative illusion. This study, consequently, focus on the "how" of the meaning rather than on its "what", since without establishing the rules that govern the textual process of the fictional work of Cunqueiro it is impossible the configuration of his narrative world.
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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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Spanish
