| FA-52588-06 | Research Programs: Fellowships for University Teachers | Noel Maureen Valis | Catholicism in Modern Spanish Narrative | 5/1/2006 - 4/30/2007 | $40,000.00 | Noel | Maureen | Valis | | | | Yale University | New Haven | CT | 06510-1703 | USA | 2005 | Spanish Literature | Fellowships for University Teachers | Research Programs | 40000 | 0 | 40000 | 0 |
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. |