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Item Elementos de lo grotesco en algunas narraciones de Francisco Ayala(Texas Tech University, 1999-12) Zamora, JorgeFrancisco Ayala is a Spanish author who belongs to that generation of writers forced to live in exile following the Spanish Civil War of 1939. Since some of his most important literary work was written while in exile, it was some time before it became available to most of his countrymen. Nevertheles, it was not long afterwards that he was acknowledeged as an extraordinary writer of Spanish fiction. Witness the fact that he has received some of the most prestigious literary awards of Spanish letters, is a member of the Spanish Royal Academy and has often been considered by some of his peers as a veritable candidate for the Nobel Prize of Literature. His narrative work has been the subject of several books and nearly 200 scholarly articles. As witnessed by several of the aforementioned books and articles, Ayala is a master of narrative technique and literary device. One outstanding feature of some of Ayala's works is what is known as the "grotesque." His critics often refer either directly or incidentally to what seems to be this pervasive aspect of some of his narratives. Nevertheless, few if any critics have truly attempted an in-depth study of the grotesque in Ayala's fictions. This study seeks to demónstrate the fundamental importance of the grotesque in stories which appear in the following collections of Ayala's fiction: Historia de Macacos; El as de Bastos; and El jardín de las delicias. In doing so, this study attempts to cali attention to the grotesque as one of the most important elements of many of the narratives of Ayala.Item Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the literature of fact: readings of Relato de un naufrago(Texas Tech University, 1992-08) Lackey, Daniel RobertNot availableItem Six archetypes in selected novels of Ana María Matute(Texas Tech University, 2002-05) Coffey, Anita LeeAna Maria Matute has been and continues to prove that she is among the most outstanding writers of the post-civil war period in Spain. Matute does not confine her fiction to a single category or style; rather it has developed with the woman, the changes in literary modes and the changes in Spain. Matute, who was ten years old at the outbreak of the Spanish civil war, lived through the devastating events not only of the war but also of the oppressive regime that followed. Writing was not only her means of financial support but also was her psychological support. She has participated in a narrative dialogue with the ghosts that lingered from her experiences through the war and the resulting years of chaos afterward. Many of Matute's characters are recurring types throughout the span of her publication, for over fifty years. The figures that her characters represent are intriguing, are universal in nature, are timeless, and fit well into most ages and cultures. The present study will use Carol Pearson's six archetypes defined in "The Hero within: Six Archetypes We Live By." The archetypes examined are the Innocent, the Orphan, the Wanderer, the Martyr, the Warrior and the Magician. These archetypes appear most clearly in the epic novel of Matute, however her earlier works demonstrate the birth and development of the archetypes. This work discovers Matute's multiple application of archetypes as characters transition from one archetype to the next throughout her characterization development in her novels both individually as well as in succession collectively.