Spiritual Consciousness of Carmen Martin Gaite (eBook)

The Whole of Life has Meaning

Anne-Marie Storrs (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
216 Seiten
Boydell & Brewer Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80010-814-1 (ISBN)

Infos

An exploration of Spanish writer Carmen Martín Gaite's religious outlook through the inner journeys of five female characters.

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An exploration of Spanish writer Carmen Martin Gaite's religious outlook through the inner journeys of five female characters.For Martin Gaite, a truly religious, or spiritual, perspective requires conscious attention to the products of the unconscious (dreams, images, memories, premonitions), followed by reflection and action, as well as a similar attentiveness and responsiveness to external events both large and small. This reconnection of the supernatural and day-to-day worlds also involves descent to the unconscious - the way to wholeness - as depicted in so many myths and fairy tales, including those which Martin Gaite used to retell or enhance the works analysed in this book: Sleeping Beauty, The Little Mermaid, Amor and Psyche, Demeter and Persephone, and the Descent of the Goddess Inanna.Looking at the extent to which these female characters attend to, reflect on, and respond to their dreams, images, memories and events, the analysis suggests that Martin Gaite uses her stories to try to communicate both the road to her own enlightenment and warnings about paths that lead away from this.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: In Spirit and Truth
Chapter 2: The Link has Broken: Matilde's Dream in El balneario
Chapter 3: When the Meaning is Lost: Death and Life in Lo raro es vivir and Irse de casa
Chapter 4: ¡Oh Inanna! No investigues los ritos del mundo inferior: Mariana's Descent to the Underworld in Nubosidad variable
Chapter 5: Looking for the Lost Daughter: Sofía's Search in Nubosidad variable

Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.3.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Monografías A
• Reihe/Serie: Monografías A
• Verlagsort: Woodbridge
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Romanistik
• Schlagworte: Amor and Psyche • Demeter and Persephone • El balneario • Fairy tales • Irse de casa • Lo raro es vivir • Myths • Nubosidad variable • religioso • Sleeping Beauty • Supernatural • The Descent of the Goddess Inanna • The LIttle Mermaid
• ISBN-10: 1-80010-814-1 / 1800108141
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80010-814-1 / 9781800108141