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Item Comparacion y contraste del erotismo en la ficcion breve de Maria de Zayas y Sotomayor y Carmen Riera(Texas Tech University, 1999-12) Parrilla, OsvaldoHístorically, female writers in Spaín have been ígnored. Until recently, canonical history treating women's líterature included Santa Teresa in the sixteenth century, Emilia Pardo Bazán ín the níneteenth century, and few others. Spanish líterature textbooks stíll omit most female writers, yet Spaín has produced many good women writers through the centuries. Diego Ignacio Parada y Barreto, in Escritoras y eruditas españolas (1881), and Juan Pedro Criado y Domínguez in Literaturas españolas de siglo XIX: Apuntes bibliográficos (1889) present hundreds of Spanish female writers. Although the latter only covers the níneteenth century, he lísts more than 390 women. Recently, more attention has been given to female writers but still it falls short of emphasis granted to the males. In recent years, however, many critics have studied the seventeenth-century wríter María de Zayas y Sotomayor. Her clever attacks on the male gender have interested many, especially the femínist critics. Thís dissertation analyzes the erotic episodes in María de Zayas's Novelas amorosas y eiemplares (1637) and Desengaños amorosos (1647). Such episodes are compared and contrasted with erotic sections ín the short novel Cuestión de amor propio and collections of short stories. Te deio, amor, en prenda el mar and Contra el amor en compañía, of the twentieth-century Catalán writer Carmen Riera. The majority of Riera's stories are confessions of love affairs which society considers inappropiate. Eroticism has been rare in the work of women writers since the tendency was to think that a writer was describing his or her personal life. Thus many women avoided the presentation of seductíon in theír wríting. Today women are writing with fewer constraints, making it less uncommon to find seductíon ín their works. Maria de Zayas's work was criticized by many people of her century because a woman was not allowed to write, read ñor seduce. Carmen Riera openly includes heterosexual as well as homosexual seductíve episodes ín her narratives. Similar to Zayas, Riera includes undeceiving experiences suffered by female characters. Despíte being so many centuries apart, similar encounters appear in both women's work.Item Sacred eroticism : Georges Bataille and Pierre Klossowski in Latin American literature(2002-05) Ubilluz, Juan Carlos, 1968-; Salgado, César Augusto; Cerna-Bazán, JoséThe purpose of this study is to analyze the theoretical and fictional dialogue between four 20th century Latin American authors and the French writers Georges Bataille and Pierre Klossowski. I will explore how Julio Cortázar, Salvador Elizondo, Mario Vargas Llosa and Juan García Ponce adopt and subvert in their short stories and novels the Bataillean and Klossowsian models of mystic eroticism. In the introduction, I offer a broad outline of the different ways in which Bataille and Klossowski have influenced the thought and writing of Latin American authors as varied as Alejo Carpentier and Severo Sarduy. In Chapter One, I provide an overview of Bataille and Klossowski’s theories and fiction, rearticulating them through Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalytic terminology to establish an analytical model for the dissertation. Chapter two exhibits the tension between André Breton’s benign and Bataille’s dark surrealism inherent in Cortázar’s poetics and Rayuela. Chapter Three elucidates the osmotic inter-textual relation between Bataille’s eroticism and the I Ching in Elizondo’s Farabeuf. Chapter Four explores the containment of Bataille’s thematic and formal excess in Vargas Llosa’s Parnassian Elogio de la madrastra. Chapter Five describes the voyeuristic “progression” of García Ponce’s oeuvre as it moves from Robert Musil’s erotic mysticism to that of Klossowski. Chapter Six discusses how, in Los cuadernos de don Rigoberto, Vargas Llosa holds a sterilizing inter-textual relation with the erotic ethics and aesthetics of Klossowski and the painter Egon Schiele. Besides establishing the common trends in the adoption/subversion of these French erotic models by Latin American writers, the conclusion brings to the fore the relation between eroticism and politics that often broached in the chapters. To offer visual support to my arguments, I include in Appendix 1 a series of paintings and photographs discussed in the main body of my dissertation. Also, in Appendix 2, I discuss in detail how Cortázar’s short stories structured about the theme of the search for alterity offer a solution to the existential impasse depicted in the stories structured about the theme of History as a barrier to the encounter between man and woman.