Catholicism in Modern Spanish Narrative

FAIN: FA-52588-06

Noel Maureen Valis
Yale University (New Haven, CT 06510-1703)

Catholicism plays a fundamental imaginative-moral role in key texts of modern Spanish narrative. This power to shape new narrative structures and perspectives and to prompt texts to focus on ethical-religious issues of belief and social concern has not, however, been understood or paid attention by literary scholars. Scholars view Spanish fiction largely as a secular enterprise; and disconnect religion from issues of modernity. By the late 18th century faith begins to show signs of being in crisis. I examine the role that this continuing religious crisis played in creating the modern forms of imaginative writing in Spain.

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Review (Review)
Author(s): Patrick Madigan
Publication: The Heythrop Journal 52.6
Date: 11/10/2011

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Author(s): Maite Zubiaurre
Publication: Revista de Literatura 72
Date: 12/12/2010

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Author(s): Alan Smith
Publication: Boletin de la Biblioteca de Menendez Pelayo 86
Date: 12/12/2010

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Author(s): Julia Bello-Bravo
Publication: Iberoamericana 11, no. 42
Date: 6/6/2011

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Author(s): William Viestenz
Publication: Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispanicos 35.2
Date: 10/10/2011

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Author(s): Linda M. Willem
Publication: Anales Galdosianos 46
Date: 1/12/2011

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Author(s): Elisa Marti Lopez
Publication: Hispanic Review 80
Date: 1/1/2012

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Author(s): James Whiston
Publication: Bulletin of Spanish Studies 89
Date: 1/1/2012

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Author(s): Jose Maria Martinez Domingo
Publication: Hipertexto 16
Date: 1/6/2012

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Author(s): Sebastiaan Faber
Publication: Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies 37.1
Date: 1/12/2012

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Author(s): Toni Dorca
Publication: Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 13.4
Date: 1/12/2012

Associated Products

Sacred Realism. Religion and the Imagination in Modern Spanish Narrative (Book)
Title: Sacred Realism. Religion and the Imagination in Modern Spanish Narrative
Abstract: Author Noel Valis reexamines the role of Catholicism in the modern Spanish novel. While other studies of fiction and faith in modern Spain have focused largely on religious themes, Sacred Realism views the religious impulse as a crisis of modernity: a fundamental catalyst in the creative and moral development of Spanish narrative.
Year: 2010
Primary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/434437842
Primary URL Description: See above
Publisher: Yale University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780300152340

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Title: Pablo de Olavide, o las reliquias de la fe
Author: Noel Valis
Abstract: On the humanitarian expression of faith in Pablo de Olavide, eighteenth-century Spanish-Peruvian reformer and writer
Year: 2011
Access Model: Subscription only
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Salina
Publisher: Salina

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Title: Narraciones del martirio y la guerra civil espanola
Author: Noel Valis
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Year: 2014
Format: Other
Periodical Title: Estudios de literatura, cultura e historia contemporanea en homenaje a Francisco Caudet. Ed. Fernando Larraz
Publisher: Ediciones de la Universidad Autonoma de Madrid

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