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Saints, spirits, serpents, and souls: Amerindian, African, and European myth in the twentieth-century novel of the Americas.

机译：圣徒，灵魂，蛇和灵魂：20世纪美洲小说中的美洲印第安人，非洲和欧洲神话。

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This dissertation studies the mythopoeic novels of six authors, equally distributed between North America and South America: three pairs of writers, one pair from the Native American tradition (Jose Maria Arguedas of Peru and Leslie Marmon Silko of the United States), one pair from the African-American tradition (Wilson Harris of Guyana and Toni Morrison of the United States), and one pair from the European-American tradition (Gabriel Garcia Marquez of Colombia and Walker Percy of the United States). Through a comparative analysis of the ethnic pairs of writers and the North American/South American sets of writers, the dissertation focuses on literature and spiritual integrity, myth and transculturation, and the degree of evolution and synthesis of the Amerindian myths already present in the New World upon its discovery by the Europeans in the fifteenth century and those myths brought to the New World by the European settlers and African slaves. Such a focus requires intensive study into general myth, as well as the myth systems of the Amerindians, the African slaves, and the European settlers. The method of study then turns to studying specific novels, utilizing four critical methods: Jungian, for its emphasis on mythic symbols and spiritual individuation; Bakhtin criticism, for its emphasis on the chronotope, the coming together of time and place, the axis where new worlds begin; Wolfgang Iser's reader response critical approach, for its emphasis on virtual dimension, the relationship between reader and writer that creates the text, which is similar to the relationship between gods and men that creates myth; and the functionalist approach that sees ritual as the enactment of myth. The significance of such a study lies in the demonstration of the endurance, presence, and necessity of myth, in the importance of showing that literature is one way of traveling towards religious, spiritual, and/or mythic truths, and in the contribution to a new emphasis of what "American" literature is in its broadest, transnational, and comparative (North-South) sense.
机译：本论文研究了六位作家的神话小说，他们在北美和南美之间平均分布：三对作家，一对来自美洲原住民传统（秘鲁的何塞·玛丽亚·阿格达斯和美国的莱斯利·马蒙·西尔科），一对来自非裔美国人的传统（圭亚那的威尔逊·哈里斯和美国的托尼·莫里森），以及欧美传统的一对（哥伦比亚的加布里埃尔·加西亚·马尔克斯和美国的沃克·珀西）。通过对作家的种族对和北美/南美作家群体的比较分析，论文的重点是文学和精神完整性，神话与文化传承，以及新时代中已经存在的美洲印第安人神话的演变和综合程度。欧洲人在15世纪发现世界后，欧洲定居者和非洲奴隶将这些神话带入了新世界。这种重点需要深入研究一般神话，以及美洲印第安人，非洲奴隶和欧洲定居者的神话体系。然后，研究方法转向利用四种批判方法研究特定的小说：荣格因强调神话符号和精神个性化；巴赫金批评，因为它强调年代，时间和地点的融合，是新世界开始的轴心。沃尔夫冈·伊塞尔（Wolfgang Iser）的读者反应批判方法，因为它强调虚拟维度，即创造文本的读者与作家之间的关系，类似于创造神话的神与人之间的关系；以及将仪式视为神话的机能主义方法。这项研究的意义在于证明神话的持久性，存在性和必要性，其重要性在于表明文学是迈向宗教，精神和/或神话真理的一种方式，并且对文学的贡献也很大。从最广泛，跨国和比较（南北）的角度来重新强调“美国”文学的含义。

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    Morelock, Kathleen Elizabeth.;

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    University of Arkansas.;

  • 授予单位 University of Arkansas.;
  • 学科 Literature Comparative.;Literature Latin American.;Literature American.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 1996
  • 页码 231 p.
  • 总页数 231
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类 文学理论;
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