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The Identities of the Monster in Calderon's "El mayor monstruo del mundo".

Elenora R. Sabin
- 01 Apr 1973 - 
- Vol. 56, pp 269
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Onetti and Rodriguez Monegal's judgment as mentioned in this paper states that the hypostatic existences born out of the act of writing are his temporary liberation from his inner stalemate.
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"una lucha grandiosa y perdida por rechazar un destino .." And in the novel itself, Larsen's game is callllleeled d 'T"su iltima oportunidad de engafiarse" (p. 57). 34Ainsa unequivocally states: "Tiene que existir una salida y para Onetti y sus personajes existe: escribir" (p. 637). Characters like Brausen in La vida breve would tend to corroborate this. Harss affirms: "Communicating with his fictions is the author's way of resolving his conflicts. The hypostatic existences born out of him in the act of writing are his temporary liberation from his inner stalemate" (p. 190). And finally, in Rodriguez Monegal's judgment ("Juan Carlos Onetti y la novela rioplatense," p. 186) liberation comes through artistic creation: "No s6lo es cierto que la liberaci6n de la rutina y de la desvalorizaci6n del alma s6lo Ilega cuando nos enfrentamos con la verdad de nosotros mismos, nos despojamos de inhibiciones y compromisos, -aventamos

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El mayor monstruo del mundo

Edward Friedman
- 01 Mar 2002 - 
TL;DR: This paper examined the structure of Mariene's speeches in El mayor monstruo del mundo and compared her voice to those of other female characters in other honor plays by Calderon.
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Calderón y la reescritura de los títulos de comedias

Adrián J. Sáez
- 01 Apr 2015 - 
TL;DR: The authors analyzes the cases in which the title changes between two versions of the play (Amor, honor y poder, La devocion de la cruz, El mayor monstruo del mundo, Guardate del agua mansa) in order to enquire the fonction of this variation, which could mean a new authorial intent and new perspectives of construction, approach and meaning.
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El mayor monstruo del mundo and the Subject of Tragedy

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the subject position of Queen Mariene in El mayor monstruo del mundo and argue that the queen occupies an intermediate space between the female protagonists of Calderonian honor plays and the precociously assertive heroine of Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam (1613).