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Author:   Antonio Cordoba ,  Daniel García-Donoso
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781349956135

ISBN 10:   1349956139
Pages:   211
Publication Date:   29 March 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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INTRODUCTIONAntonio Cordoba and Daniel García-Donoso CHAPTER 1. The Sacred in Madrid’s Soundscape: Towards an Aural Hygiene, 1856-1907Samuel Llano CHAPTER 2. Sacred, Sublime, and Supernatural: Religion and the Spanish Capital in Nineteenth-Century Fantastic NarrativesWan Sonya Tang CHAPTER 3. The Modern Usurer Consecrates the City: Circulation and Displacements in the Torquemada SeriesSara Muñoz-Muriana CHAPTER 4. Spirituality and Publicity in Barcelona, 1929: Performing Citizenship between Tradition and Avant-GardeAlberto Medina CHAPTER 5. The Places of the Subject: Abjection and the Transcendent City in Nada and La plaça del DiamantSarah Thomas CHAPTER 6. Living Off the Exception: Biopolitical Modernity and Sacratio in Francoist SpainWilliam Viestenz CHAPTER 7. Urban Avatars of “El Maligno”: Sacredness in Álex de la Iglesia’s El día de la bestia and Manuel Martín Cuenca’s CaníbalAntonio Cordoba CHAPTER 8. Searching the Soul of the City in Rafael Chirbes’s CrematorioDaniel García-Donoso CHAPTER 9. A New Heaven for a New Earth: Religion in the Contemporary Spanish NovelNathan Richardson CHAPTER 10. Media Landscapes of a Well-Dressed Multitude: The City and the Individual in Velvet and El tiempo entre costurasEsteve Sanz and Tatiana Alekseeva AFTERWORD. The Temple and the City: Contaminations of the Sacred in Modernista BarcelonaJoan Ramon Resinaiv>

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Antonio Cordoba is Assistant Professor at Manhattan College, USA. His research focuses on the interaction between modernity, wonder, and the sacred in Latin American culture. Daniel García-Donoso is Assistant Professor at The Catholic University of America, USA. His work explores the relationship between religion and culture in modern and contemporary Spain.

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