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Papers by Mauricio Aguilera Linde
Miscelánea. A Journal of American and English Studies, 2024
This article explores William Saroyan's notion that life can only be grasped as a fragment of the... more This article explores William Saroyan's notion that life can only be grasped as a fragment of the Absolute, and that any attempt to understand one's existence is by definition a frustrated project. By applying Lacoue-Labarthe and Nancy's theory of the fragment, the mark of the 'incompletable incompletion' (1978), I will read Saroyan's formless autobiographical experiments (ranging from 1952 to the late 1970s) as the author's failure to endow his elusive identity with a stable meaning and order. The culmination of his concern with fragmentation finds its best expression in the finding of a stone, an object trouvé which operates either as the transcendentalist symbol of the recovery of the totality or else as a negative allegory in the sense adumbrated by Walter Benjamin, i.e., a concept which allows the author to revisit and interrogate history as the landscape of death and decline. Steeped in the mythical aura of Armenia as the country of stones, Saroyan's petrified fragment can only be interpreted not as a vehicle of unity and fulfilment but as a reminder of tragedy, dispersion, and the failure to coalesce, all of them inevitably linked with the writer's diasporic consciousness.
Journal of English Studies, 2023
This article offers an examination of William Saroyan's stance on nationalism through the analysi... more This article offers an examination of William Saroyan's stance on nationalism through the analysis of "The Black Tartars" (1936), a story built on the technique of embedding which shows, through the layering of stories, two distinct models: one based upon primordialist notions of race; the other resting on the principle of ethnolinguistic homogeneity and resulting in the birth of the modern nation-state. By examining the dialogicity implicit in the frame narrative, I propose to examine Karachi's tale as an example of "parodic skaz" which stands at odd with the author's ideology and operates as a concave mirror reflection of the tragic fate hovering over stateless minorities.
Asparkía Investigació feminista, 2012
RESUMEN: Desde sus comienzos Fornes ha mostrado un interés por reescribir y parodiar las convenci... more RESUMEN: Desde sus comienzos Fornes ha mostrado un interés por reescribir y parodiar las convenciones del melodrama romántico, en concreto la interrelación de fuerzas implícitas en el triángulo amoroso donde la heroína es siempre objeto del deseo masculino y adhesivo moral de la familia. The Successful Life of 3, Molly's Dream, Sarita, The Conduct of Life y Mud subvierten, en mayor o menor medida y desde diferentes contrafórmulas teatrales, la dinámica de los géneros. En Mud Fornes consigue crear un «contradiscurso» (Foucault, 1978) en el que se cuestiona el rol femenino mediante la reapropiación de la imagen surrealista de la estrella de mar del cortometraje L'étoile de mer (1928) de Man Ray. El objetivo implícito en la epistemología fornesiana es romper la visión masculina de la mujer como objeto de deseo fetichista y diosa castradora (vagina dentata). Mae, la protagonista, no solo contradice las señas de identidad y el código de actuación que los dos hombres esperan de el...
Información del artículo El aula en el teatro: algunos ejemplos de "classroom settin... more Información del artículo El aula en el teatro: algunos ejemplos de "classroom setting" en la dramaturgia americana de los años sesenta.
This article reviews a number of biographies on Hemingway with the aim of revisiting the issue of... more This article reviews a number of biographies on Hemingway with the aim of revisiting the issue of gender and its relationship to life writing. Since biography has been defined as the best arena in which to fight unexamined assumptions and prejudiced notions, postmodernist biographical research into Hemingway has invariably pursued the explosion of the myth of masculinity by asserting that the writer’s gender identity, the source of his psychological conflicts, was androgynous. Androgyny, a key word in gender-bending, implies the negation of a watertight system of binaries. Biography has thus not only pioneered the disruption of the writer as an icon of monolithic masculinity and allowed literary criticism to read his texts as containing a plurality of crosscutting gender identities. By using Hemingway as a case example, it has also been pivotal in helping us overcome the rigidity and inconsistencies of the dual system.
Información del artículo Saroyan and the Theatre of the Absurd: some notes on his drama innovations.
Información del artículo History and Providence: Tennyson's Political Poetry.
Complutense Journal of English Studies
Published in the late spring of 1937 as a literary journalism piece and included in Martha Gellho... more Published in the late spring of 1937 as a literary journalism piece and included in Martha Gellhorn’s second volume of short fiction, Heart of Another (1941), “Zoo in Madrid” poses engaging questions about the journalist’s role as a war correspondent in the Spanish Civil War and her allegedly objective reportage method. In the following article, I propose to decode some of the elusive symbols of the story, built up on Hemingway’s iceberg principle of writing, in connection with its propaganda message. My contention is that the zoo, a clear symbol of the total institution, operates as a microcosmic reflection of the city under siege. However, Gellhorn’s portrayal of the animals’ conditions in the zoo is one which, unlike her contemporaries’ grim reports, enhances images of fertility and procreation immersed in an Edenic enclave that, however, fails to banish death and betrayal. In addition to a detailed revision of some of the pre-war, war and post-war reports of the Madrid zoo, I wi...
Journal of the Short Story in English. Les Cahiers de la nouvelle, 2009
Contrairement aux « grotesques » de Sherwood Anderson et aux « freaks » de Carson McCullers, cond... more Contrairement aux « grotesques » de Sherwood Anderson et aux « freaks » de Carson McCullers, condamnes a vivre dans l’isolement, malgre leurs vains efforts de communication, les fous excentriques de Saroyan poursuivent des reves absurdes, bravent regles et conventions, et se sentent bien fiers de leur identite insolite dans un monde homogene qui s’obstine a effacer les differences. Dans « Hosey Gorsey and the Frog » (1968), un conte pour enfants apparemment innocent, l’ecrivain centre sa critique sur la culture de l’abondance regnante (Susman 1980; Barnard 1995). Par une revision detaillee de ses romans, surtout de ceux publies pendant la Grande Depression, nous entendons montrer que l’œuvre breve de l’auteur, ou les heros sont des personnages extravagants et des idealistes surannes, peut etre envisagee comme une tentative pour contredire, pour bouleverser ou resister aux valeurs et aux institutions de la societe de consommation de masses: le mythe du succes et de la personnalite, l...
The purpose of this article is to help to clarify the controversy between the two tradition ally ... more The purpose of this article is to help to clarify the controversy between the two tradition ally dominant critical positions in relation to the discoursive and semantic principles which rule Tennyson's poetry: one which defends that his images are only subject to a literal interpretation via the formula X is Y and according to which words can only be the mimetic transcription of the empirical reality to which they allude; another, initiated by E. D. H. Johnson in 1949 and developed by MacLuhan in 1954, which holds that Tennyson is the clearest predecessor of the Symbolist movement fin de siecle: his images are then only meaningful insofar as they can be decoded into units of symbolic meaning. We have come to the conclusion that the critical discussion is based upon erroneous axes: despite the poet's alleged obsession with scientific clarity and veracity, Tennyson does not write empirical poetry, nor can his poems be seen simply as avant garde samples of the Symbolist creed. ...
Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2008
Destabilization of principles and suspension of widely accepted beliefs pervade the conflicting i... more Destabilization of principles and suspension of widely accepted beliefs pervade the conflicting ideological panorama of the Progressive Era. In a world dominated by the uprooting of long established traditions, O. Henry's short fiction becomes the site wherein Darwin-dictated principles, gender roles and genre rules are either dislocated or subverted. Following Boris M. Ejxenbaum's idea (1927) that the writer's use of parody lays bare the construction of his stories, I propose to demonstrate that an intentional breaking of generic expectations lies behind the narrator's use of multifarious literary formulas. Evolutionist axioms are also overruled, for dysgenic and not eugenic prevails over in the American society presented by the Southerner writer. Finally, by applying Veblen's sociological ideas (1899) to O. Henry's characters, I also aim to show that any attempt to classify them into types whose response can be predicted in the social contest is destined to...
Información del libro Entre la creación y el aula: estudios en honor de Manuel Villar Raso.
Información del artículo Metáforas náuticas en GB Shaw: La quiebra del modelo político.
El trabajo se centra en un estudio del positivismo linguistico como teoria poetica dominante en l... more El trabajo se centra en un estudio del positivismo linguistico como teoria poetica dominante en la inglaterra del s. Xix en oposicion al transcendentalismo, una corriente ideologica que arranca de una concepcion de la lengua como simbolo. La necesidad de este estudio es la de avanzar en la polemica critica existente entre dos escuelas con respecto a la poesia de tennyson: una (brooks: 1944; tillotson: 1978) que defiende que las imagenes poeticas en tennyson solo son susceptibles de ser interpretadas como signos portadores de un significado literal, fenomenologico: las palabras solo son espejos mimeticos de la realidad empirica a la que aluden; otra (e.D.H. Johnson: 1949; macluhan: 1954) que sostiene que tennyson es un precursor del simbolismo de fines de siglo, por lo que las imagenes que el emplea tienen un contenido unicamente simbolico. Se ha llegado a la conclusion de que la polemica esta apoyada sobre directrices erroneas: ni tennyson produce una poesia empirista ni sus poemas ...
... Pero, como sucede en el Portrait, y más tarde en Ulysses y Finnegans Wake, los ecos intertext... more ... Pero, como sucede en el Portrait, y más tarde en Ulysses y Finnegans Wake, los ecos intertextuales abarcan innumerables ejemplos de autores y obras que impregnan las narraciones ... a escritores españoles como Benavente-blanco de sus agudas críticas-, Ortega, Unamuno... ...
Información del artículo "The first thing i see. desire is": Tennessee ... more Información del artículo "The first thing i see. desire is": Tennessee Williams y sus personajes femeninos.
Miscelánea. A Journal of American and English Studies, 2024
This article explores William Saroyan's notion that life can only be grasped as a fragment of the... more This article explores William Saroyan's notion that life can only be grasped as a fragment of the Absolute, and that any attempt to understand one's existence is by definition a frustrated project. By applying Lacoue-Labarthe and Nancy's theory of the fragment, the mark of the 'incompletable incompletion' (1978), I will read Saroyan's formless autobiographical experiments (ranging from 1952 to the late 1970s) as the author's failure to endow his elusive identity with a stable meaning and order. The culmination of his concern with fragmentation finds its best expression in the finding of a stone, an object trouvé which operates either as the transcendentalist symbol of the recovery of the totality or else as a negative allegory in the sense adumbrated by Walter Benjamin, i.e., a concept which allows the author to revisit and interrogate history as the landscape of death and decline. Steeped in the mythical aura of Armenia as the country of stones, Saroyan's petrified fragment can only be interpreted not as a vehicle of unity and fulfilment but as a reminder of tragedy, dispersion, and the failure to coalesce, all of them inevitably linked with the writer's diasporic consciousness.
Journal of English Studies, 2023
This article offers an examination of William Saroyan's stance on nationalism through the analysi... more This article offers an examination of William Saroyan's stance on nationalism through the analysis of "The Black Tartars" (1936), a story built on the technique of embedding which shows, through the layering of stories, two distinct models: one based upon primordialist notions of race; the other resting on the principle of ethnolinguistic homogeneity and resulting in the birth of the modern nation-state. By examining the dialogicity implicit in the frame narrative, I propose to examine Karachi's tale as an example of "parodic skaz" which stands at odd with the author's ideology and operates as a concave mirror reflection of the tragic fate hovering over stateless minorities.
Asparkía Investigació feminista, 2012
RESUMEN: Desde sus comienzos Fornes ha mostrado un interés por reescribir y parodiar las convenci... more RESUMEN: Desde sus comienzos Fornes ha mostrado un interés por reescribir y parodiar las convenciones del melodrama romántico, en concreto la interrelación de fuerzas implícitas en el triángulo amoroso donde la heroína es siempre objeto del deseo masculino y adhesivo moral de la familia. The Successful Life of 3, Molly's Dream, Sarita, The Conduct of Life y Mud subvierten, en mayor o menor medida y desde diferentes contrafórmulas teatrales, la dinámica de los géneros. En Mud Fornes consigue crear un «contradiscurso» (Foucault, 1978) en el que se cuestiona el rol femenino mediante la reapropiación de la imagen surrealista de la estrella de mar del cortometraje L'étoile de mer (1928) de Man Ray. El objetivo implícito en la epistemología fornesiana es romper la visión masculina de la mujer como objeto de deseo fetichista y diosa castradora (vagina dentata). Mae, la protagonista, no solo contradice las señas de identidad y el código de actuación que los dos hombres esperan de el...
Información del artículo El aula en el teatro: algunos ejemplos de "classroom settin... more Información del artículo El aula en el teatro: algunos ejemplos de "classroom setting" en la dramaturgia americana de los años sesenta.
This article reviews a number of biographies on Hemingway with the aim of revisiting the issue of... more This article reviews a number of biographies on Hemingway with the aim of revisiting the issue of gender and its relationship to life writing. Since biography has been defined as the best arena in which to fight unexamined assumptions and prejudiced notions, postmodernist biographical research into Hemingway has invariably pursued the explosion of the myth of masculinity by asserting that the writer’s gender identity, the source of his psychological conflicts, was androgynous. Androgyny, a key word in gender-bending, implies the negation of a watertight system of binaries. Biography has thus not only pioneered the disruption of the writer as an icon of monolithic masculinity and allowed literary criticism to read his texts as containing a plurality of crosscutting gender identities. By using Hemingway as a case example, it has also been pivotal in helping us overcome the rigidity and inconsistencies of the dual system.
Información del artículo Saroyan and the Theatre of the Absurd: some notes on his drama innovations.
Información del artículo History and Providence: Tennyson's Political Poetry.
Complutense Journal of English Studies
Published in the late spring of 1937 as a literary journalism piece and included in Martha Gellho... more Published in the late spring of 1937 as a literary journalism piece and included in Martha Gellhorn’s second volume of short fiction, Heart of Another (1941), “Zoo in Madrid” poses engaging questions about the journalist’s role as a war correspondent in the Spanish Civil War and her allegedly objective reportage method. In the following article, I propose to decode some of the elusive symbols of the story, built up on Hemingway’s iceberg principle of writing, in connection with its propaganda message. My contention is that the zoo, a clear symbol of the total institution, operates as a microcosmic reflection of the city under siege. However, Gellhorn’s portrayal of the animals’ conditions in the zoo is one which, unlike her contemporaries’ grim reports, enhances images of fertility and procreation immersed in an Edenic enclave that, however, fails to banish death and betrayal. In addition to a detailed revision of some of the pre-war, war and post-war reports of the Madrid zoo, I wi...
Journal of the Short Story in English. Les Cahiers de la nouvelle, 2009
Contrairement aux « grotesques » de Sherwood Anderson et aux « freaks » de Carson McCullers, cond... more Contrairement aux « grotesques » de Sherwood Anderson et aux « freaks » de Carson McCullers, condamnes a vivre dans l’isolement, malgre leurs vains efforts de communication, les fous excentriques de Saroyan poursuivent des reves absurdes, bravent regles et conventions, et se sentent bien fiers de leur identite insolite dans un monde homogene qui s’obstine a effacer les differences. Dans « Hosey Gorsey and the Frog » (1968), un conte pour enfants apparemment innocent, l’ecrivain centre sa critique sur la culture de l’abondance regnante (Susman 1980; Barnard 1995). Par une revision detaillee de ses romans, surtout de ceux publies pendant la Grande Depression, nous entendons montrer que l’œuvre breve de l’auteur, ou les heros sont des personnages extravagants et des idealistes surannes, peut etre envisagee comme une tentative pour contredire, pour bouleverser ou resister aux valeurs et aux institutions de la societe de consommation de masses: le mythe du succes et de la personnalite, l...
The purpose of this article is to help to clarify the controversy between the two tradition ally ... more The purpose of this article is to help to clarify the controversy between the two tradition ally dominant critical positions in relation to the discoursive and semantic principles which rule Tennyson's poetry: one which defends that his images are only subject to a literal interpretation via the formula X is Y and according to which words can only be the mimetic transcription of the empirical reality to which they allude; another, initiated by E. D. H. Johnson in 1949 and developed by MacLuhan in 1954, which holds that Tennyson is the clearest predecessor of the Symbolist movement fin de siecle: his images are then only meaningful insofar as they can be decoded into units of symbolic meaning. We have come to the conclusion that the critical discussion is based upon erroneous axes: despite the poet's alleged obsession with scientific clarity and veracity, Tennyson does not write empirical poetry, nor can his poems be seen simply as avant garde samples of the Symbolist creed. ...
Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2008
Destabilization of principles and suspension of widely accepted beliefs pervade the conflicting i... more Destabilization of principles and suspension of widely accepted beliefs pervade the conflicting ideological panorama of the Progressive Era. In a world dominated by the uprooting of long established traditions, O. Henry's short fiction becomes the site wherein Darwin-dictated principles, gender roles and genre rules are either dislocated or subverted. Following Boris M. Ejxenbaum's idea (1927) that the writer's use of parody lays bare the construction of his stories, I propose to demonstrate that an intentional breaking of generic expectations lies behind the narrator's use of multifarious literary formulas. Evolutionist axioms are also overruled, for dysgenic and not eugenic prevails over in the American society presented by the Southerner writer. Finally, by applying Veblen's sociological ideas (1899) to O. Henry's characters, I also aim to show that any attempt to classify them into types whose response can be predicted in the social contest is destined to...
Información del libro Entre la creación y el aula: estudios en honor de Manuel Villar Raso.
Información del artículo Metáforas náuticas en GB Shaw: La quiebra del modelo político.
El trabajo se centra en un estudio del positivismo linguistico como teoria poetica dominante en l... more El trabajo se centra en un estudio del positivismo linguistico como teoria poetica dominante en la inglaterra del s. Xix en oposicion al transcendentalismo, una corriente ideologica que arranca de una concepcion de la lengua como simbolo. La necesidad de este estudio es la de avanzar en la polemica critica existente entre dos escuelas con respecto a la poesia de tennyson: una (brooks: 1944; tillotson: 1978) que defiende que las imagenes poeticas en tennyson solo son susceptibles de ser interpretadas como signos portadores de un significado literal, fenomenologico: las palabras solo son espejos mimeticos de la realidad empirica a la que aluden; otra (e.D.H. Johnson: 1949; macluhan: 1954) que sostiene que tennyson es un precursor del simbolismo de fines de siglo, por lo que las imagenes que el emplea tienen un contenido unicamente simbolico. Se ha llegado a la conclusion de que la polemica esta apoyada sobre directrices erroneas: ni tennyson produce una poesia empirista ni sus poemas ...
... Pero, como sucede en el Portrait, y más tarde en Ulysses y Finnegans Wake, los ecos intertext... more ... Pero, como sucede en el Portrait, y más tarde en Ulysses y Finnegans Wake, los ecos intertextuales abarcan innumerables ejemplos de autores y obras que impregnan las narraciones ... a escritores españoles como Benavente-blanco de sus agudas críticas-, Ortega, Unamuno... ...
Información del artículo "The first thing i see. desire is": Tennessee ... more Información del artículo "The first thing i see. desire is": Tennessee Williams y sus personajes femeninos.