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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819528603321

Autore

Viestenz William

Titolo

By the grace of God : Francoist Spain and the sacred roots of political imagination / / William Viestenz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4426-6859-8

1-4426-6858-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (236 p.)

Collana

Toronto Iberic ; ; 14

Disciplina

860.9/382

Soggetti

Spanish literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Religion and politics - Spain - History - 20th century

Religion and literature - Spain - History - 20th century

Spain Politics and government 1939-1975

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1 Introduction: La España Sagrada as a Political Category -- 2 "He aquí una plenitud española": Catholicism, Cultural Regeneration, and Spanish Essentialism -- 3 Politics by Other Means: The Sacred Core of Collective Imagining Post-War Stimmung -- 4 Intimate Strife: Inside Juan Goytisolo's Sovereign Exception Against Sacred Forms -- 5 The Eternal Present of Sacred Time In illo tempore -- 6 "De-sacralization" and "Sacro-genesis," or How to Step Outside of Sacred Time -- 7 Espriu's Sepharad and the Equitable Restoration of Sacred Sovereignty -- 8 Conclusion: The Aesthetic Disruption of Political Truth.

Sommario/riassunto

Using Franco's Spain and la Espana sagrada as a counterpoint to European secularity's own development, By the Grace of God is the first sustained analysis within Spanish cultural studies of the sacred as a political category and a tool for political organization.