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The Politics of Effacement: Diego de Hojeda's Humble Poetics
La Christiada is a religious epic by Diego de Hojeda, a sixteenth century Dominican in Spanish colonial Peru. Shows how the eclipse of the narrator's voice creates the illusion of his absence from the text, allowing it to stand as an autonomous monument to its sacred theme. Nevertheless, the poem represents the same belief system as profane epics of the Spanish Golden Age.
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Confession in La Regenta: The Secular Sacrament
In its representation of confession, La Regenta relentlessly uncovers desire, that core of subjectivity that inevitably disturbs the truth value of the narrative produced. To the extent that it examines the troubling relationships between language and desire, confession and sexuality, narration and seduction, the novel anticipates contemporary psychoanalytic and semiotic theory.
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Singers of the Virgin in Thirteenth-century Spain
Contributes to our understanding of how the thirteenth century faithful in Spain saw the role of Mary in God's plan for the salvation of humankind. Shows how this plan is reflected in the works of Berceo and Alfonso X, and gives Gil de Zamora'sLiber Mariae a place alongside them. Llull, thirteenth century Spain's fourth great singer of the Virgin, is not considered in this article.
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The Pluralism of Alarcón's El Niño de la Bola
Anti-ideological and anti-dogmatic nature of the novel; its pluralist treatment of religion
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The Addressee Determines the Discourse: The Role of the Confessor in the Spiritual Autobiography of Madre María de San Joseph (1656-1719)
Analyses Madre Maria's manipulation of the discourse of her autobiography in order to assert the value of her word and life before her confessor, for whom it was written
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