On the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Gonzalo Torrente Ballester (1910-1999), this article explores his permanent search for new forms of literary self-representation. Throughout his career, the concern to capture life through fiction led Torrente away from the traditional paths of realism, to radical new conceptions of literary representation based on authenticity and subjectivity (as developed in Don Juan and Dafne y ensuenos). His increasing irrationalism resulted in an effort to re-think the limits of verisimilitude and the persuasive power of words. These experiments with truth and fiction are analysed as they appear in several of Torrente writings, especially Yo no soy yo, evidentemente, a parodical homage to Fernando Pessoa.

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Le pacte autobiographique

Autorrepresentación en la obra de Torrente Ballester

This master’s thesis presents an analysis of North-American author Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) in the light of the female Bildungsroman. We aim to focus on the theoretical definitions of the novel’s subgenre and how they feature in Lee’s novel and possibly propose new definitions. The question that aims to be answered with this work is: What essentially causes To Kill a Mockingbird to be categorized as a female Bildungsroman? Scout, the protagonist/narrator in To Kill a Mockingbird, reports a period of her life which was marked by decisive events to the girl’s personal development. Through her journey, Scout relies on the support of her intimate relations, such as her father Atticus, her brother Jem, and Calpurnia, the family cook, as primary references for the development of her identity. Scout must also go through the conflicting moment in her life when social expectations which dictate what it means to be a woman or, in her case, what it means to be a girl, are suddenly imposed to her. At the same time, the girl observes how the trial of a black man accused of rape by a white woman unfolds within a deeply racist community and the combination of all these factors cause her to gradually lose her innocence. The fundamental authors for this thesis are Morgenstern (2009), Dilthey (1997), Lukacs (1998), Mann (apud BRUFORD 2009) and Bakhtin (1986), regarding the traditional concept of Bildungsroman. For the approach to the female literary tradition and the female Bildungsroman, Gilbert and Gubar (2000), and Abel, Hirsch, and Langland (1983) are the main authors who complemented the theoretical background for this research. This thesis has evidenced that the characteristics of To Kill a Mockingbird’s narrative correspond to the definitions of the concept of female Bildungsroman and that it might propose new definitions for the narrative subgenre; for instance, a revision of the narrative of apprentice structure, and how a protagonist initially raised mostly unfamiliar to the pressures of gender roles develops a more autonomous personality than other female Bildungsroman protagonists who are raised within the limitations of such social expectations.

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“It’s time you started bein’ a girl”: to kill a mockingbird, a female bildungsroman

Dans le cadre de cet article, les abreviations AF et AH renvoient respectivement a L'Afriquefantome et L'Age d'homme. 2 Cette recherche fut realisee grace a l'appui du Fonds quebecois de la recherche sur la societe et la culture (FQRSC). Je tiens a remercier tout specialement Livia Monnet, qui m'a tres vivement conseille d'explorer cette problematique, et Amaryll Chanady, ma directrice de recherche, tant pour leurs conseils enthousiastes que pour leurs precieuses critiques.

Michel Leiris et la fuite impossible: ethnographie, autobiographie et alterite feminine dans L'Afrique fantome

Identity Recruitment and the "American Writer": Steven Millhauser, Edwin Mullhouse, and Biographical Criticism

Partindo de algumas reflexoes sobre o estatuto cientifico da disciplina antropologica, o artigo pretende explorar a possibilidade de novas modalidades de escritura etnografica. Criticando as recentes experiencias interpretativas e dialogicas, ainda ligadas a concepcoes objetivantes e realistas, quer fazer emergir a natureza circular e dialogica do trabalho etnografico.

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O trabalho etnográfico: circularidade hermenêutica e dialogismo

American magazine of international literature and culture

Le pacte autobiographique

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Autorrepresentación en la obra de Torrente Ballester

“It’s time you started bein’ a girl”: to kill a mockingbird, a female bildungsroman

Michel Leiris et la fuite impossible: ethnographie, autobiographie et alterite feminine dans L'Afrique fantome

Identity Recruitment and the "American Writer": Steven Millhauser, Edwin Mullhouse, and Biographical Criticism

O trabalho etnográfico: circularidade hermenêutica e dialogismo

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