Spiritual Consciousness of Carmen Martín Gaite
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Demeter and Persephone
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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
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- ISBN 9781855663886
- Weight: 412g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 07 Mar 2023
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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An exploration of Spanish writer Carmen Martín Gaite's religious outlook through the inner journeys of five female characters.
For Martín 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 Martín 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 Martín Gaite uses her stories to try to communicate both the road to her own enlightenment and warnings about paths that lead away from this.
ANNE-MARIE STORRS has a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh (U.K.). This is her second book.
