Seduction and Sacrilege
Subtitle: Rhetorical Power in Fray Gerundio De Campazas
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: August 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9780838754443
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Spanish; Literature: Classics; General; Sermons - General; 1703-1781; 1703-1781.; Historia del famoso predicador; Historia del famoso predicador fray Gerundio de Campazas, alias Zotes; Isla, Jose Francisco de,; Isla, Josâe Francisco de,; Preaching in literature
Description: "Jose Francisco de Isla's 1758 Fray Gerundio de Campazas, a biting satire of bad preaching, was one of the most popular European works of fiction of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Fray Gerundio not only targets preachers' silly sermons and absurd antics in the pulpit, but also questions the political machinations and cultural norms that permit con men, rubes, and hacks to accede to positions of pastoral power.

Yet decreasing numbers of late twentieth-century and early twenty-first-century readers are familiar with the novel, due to many factors including its length (six volumes), subject matter (preaching), and a legacy of critical evaluation as a narrative lacking plot and psychological depth."--BOOK JACKET.