Home as Creation

The Influence of Early Childhood Experience in the Literary Creation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Agustin Yanez and Juan Rulfo

Wilma Else Detjens (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

152 Seiten

1993
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8204-2055-4 (ISBN)

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This study compares the influence of the childhood homes of three Latin American authors on the creation of the microcosms in which their masterworks, Cien años de soledad, Al filo del agua and Pedro Páramo, are set. The origins of the names of the locations are analyzed. The importance of the physical geography of the authors' homelands is investigated as is the history of their countries, especially that part of history which has touched them personally. The influence of the people who surrounded them as children is observed and the magical, mystical qualities of the childhood experience are finally presented to complete the picture of how microcosms much broader and universally appealing than the authors' real surroundings, yet somehow inextricably bound to them, were created.

The Author: Wilma Detjens received her B.A. from the University of California at Davis, her Master's from California State University at Sacramento and her Doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Delta Pi. She is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures at The Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas.

Reihe/Serie	American University Studies ; 18
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	390 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Romanistik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8204-2055-7 / 0820420557
ISBN-13	978-0-8204-2055-4 / 9780820420554
Zustand	Neuware