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| Author(s): |
José Leonardo Sousa Buzelli
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem |
| Defense date: | 2014-00-00 |
| Examining board members: |
Maria Betânia Amoroso;
Antonio Alcir Bernárdez Pécora;
Ricardo Souza de Carvalho;
Maria Augusta da Costa Vieira
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| Advisor: | Maria Eugenia da Gama Alves Boaventura Dias |
| Abstract | |
This thesis analyzes Murilo Mendes¿ poems and prose texts dedicated to Spain (to its geographic, economic, political, cultural, and religious landscapes) and to several of its cultural personalities; I try to demonstrate how Mendes¿ Catholicism drives him to choose the Iberian country as a poetic subject in a moment of crisis of his faith, and during a period when Franquism, a Fascist inspired regime supported by Pope Pius XII and the majority of the Spanish Catholic clergy, was oppressing its own population under the pretext of defending Christianity against Russian-oriented atheistic communism. I analyze at great length his rhetoric use of nostalgia for a highly idealized Christian past, contrasting it to a present seen as brutal and mean, in two specific titles: Tempo Espanhol, a book of poetry published in Lisbon, in 1959; and Espaço Espanhol, written in prose in the second half of the 1960s but never published during the author¿s lifetime (AU) | |