Sacred realism
Subtitle: religion and the imagination in modern Spanish narrative
By: Noël Valis
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Haven [Conn.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780300152340
Description: "In this book, leading Spanish literature scholar Noel Valis re-examines the role of Catholicism in the modern Spanish novel. While other studies of fiction and faith 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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The relics of faith; title: The philanthropic embrace; title: The confessional body; title: The politics of martyrdom.