Modernismo y modernidad en Jose Maria Rivas Groot. (Spanish text)
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Title
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Modernismo y modernidad en Jose Maria Rivas Groot. (Spanish text)
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Identifier
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AAI9130301
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identifier
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9130301
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Creator
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Castellanos, George N.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Marlene Gottlieb
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Date
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1991
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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, Latin American | Literature, Modern
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Abstract
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This dissertation studies the modernist prose of Colombian writer, Jose Maria Rivas Groot, within the context of the sociohistorical concept of modernity. The dissertation explores Modernism as the first stage in the development of Modernity. In addition, it demonstrates that Rivas Groot cultivates modernist writing to reflect the instability and spiritual crisis at the end of the XIX century.;Five chapters comprise the entire study. The concept of Modernism as a crisis of Modernity is analyzed in Chapter 1. It also traces the concepts of crisis and modernity as seen by contemporary criticism. Chapter 2 studies the life of Jose Maria Rivas Groot exposed in personal documents facilitated by his family, and a collection of personal letters (1870-1878) that describe his early childhood and adolescence. Chapter 3 represents Rivas Groot as literary critic, an important aspect of his writings, revealing his accomplishment as a literary theorist in Colombia. In Chapter 4, his novels, Resurreccion (1901) y El triunfo de la vida (1916) are analyzed within the central theme of this dissertation. The entire production of short stories, published and unpublished by Rivas Groot is also analyzed in Chapter 5. These fictional works are grouped together under the following titles: (1) "Socio-political Modernity"; (2) "Criticism of Modernity's Ideal of Progress"; (3) "Modernity and Christianity"; (4) "Aesthetic Modernity". The Appendix contains nine unpublished short stories.;The dissertation reaches the conclusions that Jose Maria Rivas Groot, (1) Reproduces the cultural-historical panorama of Modernity. (2) Examines a phenomenon of Modernity; the return of Christ, which awakens the necessity of apostle-like figures to redeem a lost humanity. (3) Cultivates the novel of artists in which the artist and his art become the object of literature. (4) Revives the romantic theme of the return to Nature in order to rescue the harmony and tranquility lost with the birth of civilization. (5) Proposes, as literary critic, new poetic forms and theorizes on the aesthetics of the modernist novel in contrast with the romantic and realist fiction.
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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.
