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Beyond the Aesthetics and Social Contextualisation of José Hernández’S Martín Fierro Beyond the Aesthetics and Social Contextualisation of José Hernández’s Martín Fierro: An Unmasking of the Myth of the Literary Creator and the Literary Creation Michelle Shirley Almirón June 2017 A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of The Australian National University © Copyright by Michelle Shirley Almirón 2017 All Rights Reserved 2 This thesis is an original work by Michelle Shirley Almirón undertaken in the pursuit of the Doctor of Philosophy at the Australian National University submitted on June 2017. 3 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Like any other person, I am the sum of all my interactions with people and the world. What I bring to this dissertation is a deep love of story and literature and a restlessness of spirit (perhaps as a consequence of being a child of migrant parents). As part of the very small contingent of the Argentine diaspora in Australia, I needed to understand the reasons for the familial uprooting from its origins before I could fully bond with my birth country and my ‘Australianess’. The outcome is this thesis. With both intellectual and intuitive understanding, I found a wholeness of being and the realization that Melbourne is my home. To get to this place, I have been supported and assisted by many intelligent and kind individuals. Associate Professor Daniel Martín has been a mentor par excellence. I have been fortunate to have him as my principal supervisor and as one of my main supporters. His intellectual and emotional generosity has been essential, and I feel fortunate to have been the recipient of his eternal patience. Associate Professor Martín’s capacity for academic rigour and his immense talent as a scholar and writer has inspired me and challenged me to improve my own academic and creative approaches to literature and writing. To be gifted with such a wonderful mentor throughout this process has made its conclusion possible. Dr Martha Florez has been an exceptional advisor and her constructive and detailed feedback and encouragement and keen intellectual mind and generosity have been instrumental in my doctoral journey. Distinguished Professor Jen Webb from The University of Canberra has provided me with helpful feedback regarding aspects of literary theory 4 and in particular the theories expoused by Pierre Bourdieu. Professor Webb’s generosity in providing comment has been invaluable. I also extend many thanks to retired Dr Clive H. Griffin from The University of Oxford who supported me during my stay at Trinity College as a Visiting Scholar. The opportunity to touch base regarding my research with such an outstanding academic who was so committed and enthused about Latin American Literature in such a respected institution was a unique experience which I will always treasure. Of course, no woman is an island and I have been blessed with a support network of close family and dear friends who have listened to my endless struggles to finish this thesis with patience and love. I would like to thank my mother Elsa Cristina Pilela de Almirón, my father Edgardo Carlos Almirón and my sister Karina Elizabeth Almirón. Without them, this endeavour would just not have been possible. Their love, support, care-packages, meals, belief in me and affection have been vital to my success in completing this thesis. I am a product of this family unit and I take great pride and strength from that knowledge. I also am thankful to Laura Mary Smyth, Patsy Poppenbeek, Marie Claire Blin and Jane Elliott for their unwavering support, friendship, endless supply of cups of tea, glasses of wine, gin & tonics and offer of homes and desks when I needed a mini PhD retreat. I am fortunate to have such wonderful people in my life who understood that the complaining would give way to emotional maturation which would allow me to engage with and ultimately conquer this immense project. I would also like to thank my successive workplaces that have been so supportive of my doctoral endeavours, particularly my colleagues at the 5 Advocacy and Legal service at the University of Melbourne Student Union. Their patience, understanding, support and polite enquiries have been instrumental in allowing me to live a dual life of advocate by day and doctoral candidate by night. Finally, I am extremely fortunate to be able to complete my doctoral studies at the College of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. As a recipient of the CASS Scholarship, I thank the academic and professional staff for their support throughout this process. 6 ABSTRACT Martín Fierro by José Hernández has enjoyed much success since its publication in 1872: first, as the popular gaucho poem that excited the rural inhabitants of a newly formed Argentina and launched the literary and political career of its author; second, (from 1913 on) as a literary juggernaut that successive generations of Argentine writers have returned to again and again - to find the essence of ‘Argentinity’1, to align their literary career with the gaucho poem or to rail against its central position in the nation’s literary landscape. Such has been the reaction to the gaucho poem that many literary commentators and critics have struggled with the question of ‘How do you solve a literary problem like Martín Fierro?’ Pierre Bourdieu’s The Rules of Art provides a critical and complete approach to literary criticism that moves away from the paradigm of literary and social readings of texts that have dominated the discipline. It provides a multi- layered and organic sociological approach to understanding the literary classics of a nation as well as the national literary canons that seem to rise up from literary fields both slowly and spontaneously. This dissertation endeavours to clarify the principles for the study of literature using the sociological tools and analysis of literary texts and fields espoused by Bourdieu in The Rules of Art in order to apply it to the case study of Hernández’s gaucho poem and the literary field of the Argentine nation during the period of nation formation. 1 A vulgar translation of ‘argentinidad’ – a short hand word to emcompass the essence of the Argentine nation. 7 TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ........................................................................................................ 3 ABSTRACT ................................................................................................................................. 6 TABLE OF CONTENTS ........................................................................................................... 7 LIST OF FIGURES .................................................................................................................... 9 LIST OF TABLES .................................................................................................................... 10 CHAPTER 1 .............................................................................................................................. 11 BEYOND AESTHETICS AND SOCIAL CONTEXTUALISATION ............................................................ 11 1.1 Introduction .................................................................................................................................. 11 1.2 Scope of Dissertation ................................................................................................................ 16 1.3 Thesis Rationale .......................................................................................................................... 17 1.4 Research Design .......................................................................................................................... 19 1.5 Key Research Questions ........................................................................................................... 21 1.6 Conclusion ..................................................................................................................................... 23 CHAPTER 2 ............................................................................................................................... 24 THE RULES OF ART: ............................................................................................................................ 24 A NOVEL APPROACH TO LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM ...................................................... 24 2.1 Introduction .................................................................................................................................. 24 2.2 Literary Theory ........................................................................................................................... 26 2.2.1 Literary Reading Theories (LRTs) .................................................................................. 27 2.2.2 Social Reading Theories (SRTs) ....................................................................................... 34 2.3 Pierre Bourdieu and The Rules of Art ............................................................................... 49 2.4 The Field of Power ..................................................................................................................... 53 2.5 The Literary Field ...................................................................................................................... 59 2.6 The Habitus and the Author’s Point of View .................................................................. 74 2.7 The Illusio and the Collective Misrecognition ............................................................... 90 2.8 Limitations and Critics to
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