Mapping the works of Manuel de Pedrolo in relation to the post-civil war Catalan landscape

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dc.contributor.advisorBuffery, Helenaen
dc.contributor.advisorMurphy, Orlaen
dc.contributor.authorNilsson-Fernàndez, Pedro
dc.contributor.funderIrish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciencesen
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-06T12:05:28Z
dc.date.issued2019
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dc.description.abstractPolygraph author Manuel de Pedrolo stands as one of the most prolific Catalan writers in the twentieth century. Furthermore, he is a figure unquestionably associated with Catalan identity and the region’s struggle for self-determination. His corpus comprises over one hundred and twenty titles – poetry, drama, short stories and novels, as well as a number of political articles, mostly written for Catalan newspapers during the 1980s, and later collected in volumes. In spite of the recent revival of interest in his figure and his work, coinciding with the commemoration in Catalonia of the centenary of his birth, there has still not been an attempt to systematically measure his impact, nor even the kind of diachronic mapping of his legacy I propose here. This study will address a representative selection of thirteen short stories and twenty-one novels written by the author between 1938 and 1976 – in the genres of Sci-Fi and fantasy, crime fiction and realism – from a spatial point of view. Through a painstaking charting of the spaces represented by the author in his texts, this thesis maps Pedrolo’s contribution to the (re)construction of the twentieth-century Catalan literary landscape and visualises the scope of his overarching literary project. In order to aid in the deciphering of such a wide and heterogeneous corpus as that of Pedrolo, this study combines a critical approach that draws on a cultural studies toolkit (cultural geography, urban studies, postcolonial approaches) with distant-readings provided by the use of GIS and a text-mining script, benaura.py, specifically created for this project.en
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dc.identifier.citationNilsson-Fernàndez, P. 2019. Mapping the works of Manuel de Pedrolo in relation to the post-civil war Catalan landscape. PhD Thesis, University College Cork.en
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/8959
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dc.publisherUniversity College Corken
dc.rights© 2019, Pedro Nilsson-Fernàndez.en
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dc.subjectCatalanen
dc.subjectSpaceen
dc.subjectGISen
dc.subjectPedroloen
dc.subjectCataloniaen
dc.subjectLiteratureen
dc.subjectGeographyen
dc.subjectDHen
dc.subjectMappingen
dc.subject20th centuryen
dc.subjectGeohumanitiesen
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dc.titleMapping the works of Manuel de Pedrolo in relation to the post-civil war Catalan landscapeen
dc.typeDoctoral thesisen
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen
dc.type.qualificationnamePhDen
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