De Perceval, Batman y el Santo Grial | tesis de María del Pilar Lamadrid

Dr. Lugo, María del Pilar Lamadrid, Dra. Polhill y el Dr. Otero

El pasado miércoles 28 de febrero de 2018, nuestra estudiante María del Pilar Lamadrid defendió con distinciones su tesis «Momma’s boy, Momma’s boy”: The Loss of the Mother and the Melancholic Quest in the Medieval Tale of Parzival and in Grant Morrison and Dave McKean’s Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth». 

Según detalla en la introducción nuestra nueva Maestra en Literatura Comparada, 

«I propose to investigate how the loss of the mother figure develops a state of mental ideal for a sanity that can never be achieved, driving the action of the heroes in the graphic novel into a journey in search of a “holy grail” they can never attain, so hence the characters succumb to a melancholic state. The concept of The Holy Grail will be alluded to metaphorically in the analysis of the graphic novel [Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth], as a shifting ideal, suggesting a sought after but unobtainable identity, or in the case of the graphic novel, as an ungraspable sanity ever mutating depending on the psychological state of he who seeks the grail».

El comité estuvo compuesto por la doctora Carmen Rabell, representada el día de la defensa por el doctor Dorian Lugo, el doctor Juan Otero, el doctor Elidio La Torre Lagares y la doctora Marian Polhill.

Felicitamos a Maria del Pilar por el logro alcanzado. ¡Enhorabuena!