“O ciclista” and Dalton Trevisan: A bicycle perspective
Abstract
This dissertation purposes to regard Dalton Trevisan's "O ciclista" as a primary source from which to establish the framework for an intertextual bicycle perspective. The collected information points to a current impossibility of separating the human mind and body from the machine, implicating the bicycle in a unique quest in its links to narcissism, love, and mortality. The study addresses the relationship between mind, body, and machine in terms of the spatial and social constructs which shape autonomy and interaction. The selected literature furthermore supports literary consideration of the bicycle as a positive, exposed, highly kinetic, non-fraudulent vehicle in attempts to distinguish between co-operation and mass coercion, the fighter and the warrior, and the service and servitude of technologies.
Degree
Ph.D.
Advisors
Dixon, Purdue University.
Subject Area
Comparative literature|Latin American literature
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