Aprobacion y desaprobacion del honor a la luz de la narratologia: Estudio comparativo de "El alcalde de Zalamea" de Calderon y "Cronica de una muerte anunciada" de Garcia Marquez

Abstract

This thesis examines honour as a central theme in narrative passages of El alcalde de Zalamea (circa 1642), a seventeenth-century play by Spain's Pedro Calderon de la Barca, and in Cronica de una muerte anunciada (1981), a short novel by Colombian Gabriel Garcia Marquez. By means of a comparative study, and using narratology as the primary theoretical and methodological frame, this theme is explored through the analysis of both works at three different "levels"---that of the characters, the narrators, and the implied authors---with the intention of revealing the distinct contrast between the ideology expressed at all levels and, ultimately, at the level of the respective implied authors as the embodiment of the works' ideologies, in regards to honour as a socially-regulated code of conduct. An important portion of this analysis is dedicated to discussing the relationship between the fictional components of these works and their symbolic meaning in the external or "real"/non-fictional world in connection with said ideology.