FIELD(S) OR AREA(S) OF SPECIAL INTEREST WITHIN DISCIPLINE OR PROFESSION:
The
theory and function of myth in modern literature, especially the modern French and Latin
American novel, the structuralist study of literary texts, dialogic criticism,
reader-response criticism, narratology, deconstruction and the critical writings of
Mikhail Bakhtin, the image of Christopher Columbus in modern literature, the New Latin
American Historical Novel, and postmodernism/postcolonialism in Latin America.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
a.
Refereed Articles Published:
"The
Question of History in the Postmodern Debate in Latin America," The Comparatist XXII (May, 1998): 145-67.
"Periodismo,
ficción, espacio carnavalesco y oposiciones binarias: la creación de la infraestructura
novelística de García Márquez," Hispania,
71:1 (March, 1988), 50-60.
b.
Books and/or Chapters:
The
First García Márquez: A Study of His Journalism From 1948 to 1955
(Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1992), 223 pages.
El
primer García Márquez: Un estudio de su periodismo de 1948 a 1955
(Potomac, Maryland: Scripta Humanistica, 1991), 221 pages.
The
Evolution of Myth in Gabriel García Márquez from La hojarasca to Cien años de soledad,
published by Ediciones Universal, Miami, Florida, August, 1982, 153 pages.
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