Heroes on the make : in the name of Martín-Santos' silence, destruction, and beyond
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- My thesis proposes a new reading of the fictional work of the 20th century Spanish psychiatrist and writer Luis Martín-Santos (Larache, Marruecos, 1924--Vitoria, España, 1964) in which the political drive⎯prevalent in current criticism⎯is not the main guideline to its interpretation. Instead, I propose a reading based on the impact of Martín-Santos' psychiatric essays on his work in fiction⎯mainly in his novel Tiempo de silencio (1962) and in his posthumous fragment Tiempo de destrucción (1975). I analyze the influence of Sartre, Heidegger and Freud in Martín-Santos' non-fictional writings to further apply the latter to his fictional ones. I proceed then to focus on the effects that hegemonic masculinity, in its Contemporary Western patriarchic form, has on the novels' characters as an illustration of Martín-Santos' concept of literature as "desacralizadora" and "sacro-genética." This reading draws on crucial aspects of Luis Martín-Santos' writings in which he was contesting not just the Franco regime but, moreover, it reflects on the patriarchal system and functions of masculinity as one of the most important resonances of his works in the 21st century. I defend a reading of Martín-Santos' creative works as an attempt to destroy the prevalent masculine myths of Western patriarchy, and as a proposal to create the new ones for the future, rendering the spectrum of Martín-Santos' writings relevance far greater than that of a critical political portrait of the Spain of the 1950's.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2014 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Bota Burgués, Miguel |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures. |
| Primary advisor | Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich |
| Thesis advisor | Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich |
| Thesis advisor | Predmore, Michael P |
| Thesis advisor | Ruffinelli, Jorge |
| Advisor | Predmore, Michael P |
| Advisor | Ruffinelli, Jorge |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Miguel Bota Burgués. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2014. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2014 by Miguel Bota Burgues
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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