Browsing by Subject "Letter"

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    Les recits de voyage epistolaires en Arabie au XVIIIe siecle.
    (Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2019-05-04) Al-Hajebi, Abdulghani
    Narratives of a trip to Arabia in the eighteenth century are often stories written during the journey. These letters form after the return of the traveler the matter of a story published by the traveler himself or by a publisher. The letter that constitutes the travel narrative is usually of a particular value: it gives the story a more real style. Based on an analysis of four epistolary travel relationships, this article’s main objectives are to prove the presence of letters in travelogues in Arabia, to demonstrate the functions and characteristics of these letters, the originality and speci!city of each epistolary narrative. Our study focuses on the letter as a narrative, and not as a mere ornament or circumstantial element related to the course of the action.
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    La presencia de la materia epistolar en el Nouveau Roman y el Nouveau Théâtre.
    (Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2018) Monterrubio, Lourdes
    Abstract: The present article aims to analyse the presence of the epistolary material in the literary renovation materialised by the scriptural practices of the New Novel and The Theatre of the Absurd. The analysis of the different works –La Dernière Bande (1959) by Samuel Beckett, Le Fiston and Lettre morte (1959) by Robert Pinget, Histoire (1967) by Claude Simon, Correspondance and Réflexions (1968) by Louis Palomb, Aurélia Steiner (1979) by Marguerite Duras– will allow us to determine how their authors instrumentalise the epistolary material to show the impossibility of its realization. The epistolary device then becomes a tool of the rule-breaking practices of these new literary experiences, causing a metamorphosis of the letter that is essential in its evolution within the literary and theatrical space. The missive is generated as a radical expression of subjectivity and as a denial of its communicative characteristics and its possibilities of self-objectivation; it shows a identitary crisis which materialises in the human being’s inability to narrate and narrate oneself, to comunícate.
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    ¿Viajando por Egipto con Heródoto? De nuevo sobre el papiro P.Lond. III 854.
    (Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2025) Pajón Leyra, Irene; Sin departamento asociado
    El papiro P.Lond. III 854 (s. I-II d.C.) conserva parte de una carta en la que un cierto Nearco relata un viaje que dice haber realizado por Egipto. Sin embargo, la visión que ofrece del país no se corresponde con la vigente en su época: sitúa las fuentes del Nilo en Siena, coincidiendo con Heródoto pero no con fuentes posteriores, y atribuye al oráculo de Amón de Siwah una relevancia que ya no tiene. En un principio se consideró que el texto guardaba una relación directa con el texto de las Historias, pero la falta de coincidencias textuales claras llevó a cuestionar esta idea. El presente trabajo pretende ofrecer una revisión actualizada del contexto literario de la carta, con atención especial al papel de la obra de Heródoto, que probablemente fuera de los círculos eruditos seguía disfrutando de autoridad acerca de Egipto y su geografía.