2008, Spanish, English, Thesis edition: Carmen Martín Gaite : teórica esotérica / submitted by Joseph Ciampa. Ciampa, Joseph.

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  • 230 leaves.
Published
  • 2008.
Language
  • Spanish
  • English

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Title
  • Carmen Martín Gaite : teórica esotérica /​ submitted by Joseph Ciampa.
Author
  • Ciampa, Joseph.
Other Authors
  • La Trobe University. Theses. School of Historical and European Studies.
Published
  • 2008.
Physical Description
  • 230 leaves.
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Summary
  • This thesis was primarily provoked by the textual challenges calling for attention from a singular work written by the Spanish writer Carmen Martín Giate who felt inclined to join ideologically the continental European literary critics in their efforts to foster a science called "Narratology" during the decade of the 1970s. Apart from trying to find her own way through the new discipline before expanding her literary endeavors. Martín Gaite wanted to exempt it from the usually pedantic notions and abstractions of rhetoric. To that end, she contributed literary models of her own within the canonically established genres; and also highlighted in a playfull manner, the pleasurable functions of narrative literature as a whole. She chose, therefore, a seemingly ludic approach, adopting a criterion of (un)systematic vertebración in structuring a narratology of her own creation, consisting of a longish anecdotal narration in which she stressed both the telling/​hearing of stories as an individual psychological necessity, and the existence of a source/​repository of tales available to humanity at large within the collective unconscious.
  • The richness of the afore-mentioned repository is manifested - she argued - in the outstanding stories of the known world literatures and, more obviously, in the instinctive yearning of human conversations towards the narrational components of encounters and relationships. Martín Gaite thus planned her "narration" as a neverending story (un cuento de nunca acabar) composed through a combination of narrative and discursive pieces scattered according to what could best be described as a hide-and-seek technique. The importance of this project was signaled by her in a brief autobiographical sketch she wrote in 1980, and which was subsequently published (together with an English translation) in 1989 in Joan Lipman Brown's Secrets from the Back Room: the Fiction of Carmen Martín Gaite: Since 1974 I have been involved in a quite ambitious essay where I try to analyze the motivations of conversations, and the differences between oral narration and written narration. I think that if one could always communicate with one's peers in an adequate way at a proper moment, there would be no need to write. Writing is something used as a palliative against the lack of communication that we suffer today [. . .] (33)
  • Martín Gaite openly admitted to the fragmentary nature of this type of approach in her work, seeing it as probably unavoidable given that the ideas gestated over many years in her jottings (apuntes y notas) in numerous Notebooks (cuadernos). The present thesis considers the systematic thought-process and the logical consistency of her (theoretical and creative) work, evident despite the informality of its creation and the almost hidden intentions behind it. Her coherence and aims unite an output - effectively a treatise - distributed intertextually amid short and long essays, anecdotes and brief stories, and philosophical and psychoanalytical considerations, and shaped by dialogical reminiscences. The search for the unsaid and for the cryptic is thus anticipated as being of particular interest in this dissertation.
Notes
  • Research.
  • "A thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy [to the] Spanish Program (with Portuguese, Catalan and Galician), School of Historical and European Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Studies, La Trobe University".
  • Thesis (Ph.D.) -- La Trobe University, 2008.
  • Includes bibliographical references (leaves 223-230)
  • Text in Spanish, summaries in Spanish and English and other preliminaries in English.
Language
  • Spanish
  • English
Dewey Number
  • 863.64
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