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Author Viestenz, William, author.

Title By the grace of God : Francoist Spain and the sacred roots of political imagination / William Viestenz.

Publication Info. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Toronto Iberic studies
Toronto Iberic.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 1 Introduction: La España Sagrada as a Political Category -- 2 "He aquí una plenitud española": Catholicism, Cultural Regeneration, and Spanish Essentialism -- 3 Politics by Other Means: The Sacred Core of Collective Imagining Post-War Stimmung -- 4 Intimate Strife: Inside Juan Goytisolo's Sovereign Exception Against Sacred Forms -- 5 The Eternal Present of Sacred Time In illo tempore -- 6 "De-sacralization" and "Sacro-genesis," or How to Step Outside of Sacred Time -- 7 Espriu's Sepharad and the Equitable Restoration of Sacred Sovereignty -- 8 Conclusion: The Aesthetic Disruption of Political Truth.
Summary Using Franco's Spain and la Espana sagrada as a counterpoint to European secularity's own development, By the Grace of God is the first sustained analysis within Spanish cultural studies of the sacred as a political category and a tool for political organization.
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Subject Spanish literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Spanish literature.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Religion and politics -- Spain -- History -- 20th century.
Religion and politics.
Spain.
History.
Spain -- Politics and government -- 1939-1975.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1939-1975
Subject Religion and literature -- Spain -- History -- 20th century.
Religion and literature.
Religion in literature.
Religion in literature.
Politics in literature.
Politics in literature.
National characteristics in literature.
National characteristics in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Viestenz, William, author. By the grace of God 9781442647572 (OCoLC)865495274
ISBN 9781442668584 (electronic book)
144266858X (electronic book)
9781442647572
1442647574