UID:
almafu_9961060632902883
Format:
1 online resource (207 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-280-76549-6
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9786610765492
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1-84615-036-1
Series Statement:
Coleccion Tamesis. Serie A, Monografias ; 195
Content:
Post-Civil War novelist Mars©♭ subverts iconic Catholic imagery in ironic sub-textual commentary on political ideology. The prize-winning novelist Juan Mars©♭, born in Barcelona in 1933, is widely-read not only within Spain but also in translation, for his often provocative portrayals of life in post-war Barcelona. Clark's study discusses Mars©♭'s engagement with Catholic popular culture, Spanish National Catholicism and Catalan Catholic Nationalism, exploring his subversion of iconic imagery as an ironic sub-textual commentary on political ideology, by which he is able to experiment with outer reality and inner reconstructions of experience. Dr Clark shows how religious and profane visions of love are subtly intertwined, how the tales told by children and the novel form itself are interrelated, and finally how a variety of biblical topoi, ranging from the Garden of Eden to the Song of Songs, are deployed in Mars©♭'s fiction. Particular attention is paid to La oscura historia de la prima Montse, Si te dicen que caand Im genes y recuerdos. ROSEMARY CLARK lectures in the department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Cambridge. El novelista Juan Mars©♭, nacido en Barcelona en 1933 y ganador de varios premios internacionales, es un autor muy le©Ưdo no solamente en Espa©ła sino tambi©♭n en otros pa©Ưses del mundo, a trav©♭s de traducciones, y su obra se aprecia especialmente por sus descripciones provocativas de la vida cotidiana en la Barcelona de posguerra. La monograf©Ưa de Clark analiza el profundo inter©♭s que sent©Ưa Mars©♭ por la cultura popular cat©đlica y el nacionalcatolicismo - tanto en su forma espa©łola como en su forma catalana. Demuestra que la manera en qrs©♭ utiliza los ©Ưconos y las proyeciones visuales del Catolicismo constituye un comentario ir©đnico y sutil sobre la ideolog©Ưa pol©Ưtica de la ©♭poca franquista. Las novelas de Mars©♭ - especialmente La oscura historia de latse, Si te dicen que ca©Ư y Im©Łgenes y recuerdos -- exploran los lindes entre la realidad objetiva y la reconstrucci©đn sujetiva de aquella realidad en el mundo de la ficci©đn.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 03 May 2023).
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Games of hide-and-seek : eluding the critical eye -- Games of make-believe : playing with historical discourses -- Sexualising the sacred : Vatican II as a 'novela rosa' in La oscura historia de la prima Montse -- Catalonia and paradise gardens : eroticising Edens -- Dark angels and bright devils : games with ambiguous icons.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-85566-087-3
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781846150364
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