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Memoria literaria y lexicalizacion del canon literario del Siglo de Oro en el lenguaje periodistico hispano: don Quijote, don Juan y Fuenteovejuna (1975-2017).

Gámez García, María del Mar
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1554120630891184

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2019, PhD, University of Cincinnati, Arts and Sciences: Romance Languages and Literatures.
My dissertation, entitled “Literary Memory and Lexicalization of the Early Modern Spanish Canon: Don Quixote, Don Juan, and Fuenteovejuna in the Language of Hispanic Journalism (1975-2017),” is a cultural studies interdisciplinary project that deals with the fields of literature, linguistics, and journalism. It analyzes the way Spanish-speaking journalists from Spain and Latin America use literary terms derived from the Spanish Golden Age works "Don Quixote of La Mancha" (1605), by Miguel de Cervantes, "Fuente Ovejuna" (1613), by Felix Lope de Vega, and "The Trickster of Seville" (1630), generally attributed to Tirso de Molina, to describe present day reality in Spain and Latin America. My dissertation analyzes which of the readings offered by literary criticism of those three canonical Spanish Golden Age works and their main protagonists are more common in Hispanic journalism nowadays. It also studies the process of lexicalization of literary terms derived from those works and analyzes several prestigious and well-known Spanish dictionaries to find out when each of those words were incorporated into the Spanish language and how their spelling and meaning have evolved through the centuries. My research uses Memory Studies and Reception Theory to show that by referring to the above-mentioned literary works, journalists are layering an interpretation/meaning onto those works (or reinscribing them) and continuing the process of passing the memory of each of those Golden Age texts, characters, myths and symbols on to yet another generation. My dissertation argues that journalism is an important site of memory and that journalists play an essential role in the dissemination, maintenance, reinterpretation, and actualization of the cultural and literary memory of those Spanish Golden Age literary works. In addition, it shows that journalism plays an important role in the lexicalization of concepts, terms, and expressions derived from those three canonical works. The first chapter of my dissertation is devoted to the discussion of the theoretical framework that I will use to carry out my analysis. The second chapter deals with the figure of Don Quixote of La Mancha and looks at some of the most influential readings provided by literary critics about Cervantes’ masterpiece and its main protagonist. It studies the process of lexicalization of some literary terms derived from Don Quixote and analyzes thousands of journalistic texts published by the press of Spain and Latin American in the period of 1975-2017, in which literary terms related to the character of Don Quixote have been used. The third and fourth chapters have a similar structure but deal with the Don Juan Tenorio and Fuenteovejuna, respectively. Finally, the last chapter of this dissertation underlines journalism’s major role as a site of cultural and literary memory and highlights its contribution not only to the lexicalization of Spanish Golden Age literary terms but also to the memory of Spanish Golden Age canonical works and characters in Spain and Latin America.
Carlos Gutiérrez, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Maria-Paz Moreno, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Andrés Pérez-Simón, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
494 p.
Literature
Reception of Early Modern Spanish Literature; Journalism; Lexicalization; Canon; Cultural Memory; Literary Memory

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  • Gámez García, M. D. M. (2019). Memoria literaria y lexicalizacion del canon literario del Siglo de Oro en el lenguaje periodistico hispano: don Quijote, don Juan y Fuenteovejuna (1975-2017). [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1554120630891184

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  • Gámez García, María del Mar. Memoria literaria y lexicalizacion del canon literario del Siglo de Oro en el lenguaje periodistico hispano: don Quijote, don Juan y Fuenteovejuna (1975-2017). 2019. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1554120630891184.

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  • Gámez García, María del Mar. "Memoria literaria y lexicalizacion del canon literario del Siglo de Oro en el lenguaje periodistico hispano: don Quijote, don Juan y Fuenteovejuna (1975-2017)." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1554120630891184

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