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Candace Slater
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      Candace Slater's new book focuses on narratives concerning Fray Leopoldo de Alpandeire (1864-1956), a Capuchin friar from Granada and probably the most popular nonconsecrated saint today in all of Spain. In tracing the emergence of a group of contemporary legends about Fray Leopoldo, Slater discusses both the stories she tape-recorded in the streets of Granada and the friar's official biography. She underscores the essential pluralism of the tales, their undercurrent of resistance to institutional authority, and their deep concern for the relationship between past and present. Bearing witness to the subtlety and resilience of even the most apparently conservative folk-literary forms, these stories are not only about the role of saints and miracles in an increasingly secular and industrial society but, first and foremost, also about the legacy of the Franco years. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Candace Slater EAN: 9780520357587 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 499 g HEIGHT: 234 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: University of California Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2021-01-08 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology WIDTH: 156 cm SPINE:

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      Europe, Literary theory, Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)

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      Candace Slater is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Berkeley. She is author of Stories on a String: The Brazilian Literatura de Cordel and Trail of Miracles: Stories from a Pilgrimage in Northeastern Brazil, and This Earth, That Sky. 
      Candace Slater's new book focuses on narratives concerning Fray Leopoldo de Alpandeire (1864-1956), a Capuchin friar from Granada and probably the most popular nonconsecrated saint today in all of Spain. In tracing the emergence of a group of contemporary legends about Fray Leopoldo, Slater discusses both the stories she tape-recorded in the streets of Granada and the friar's official biography. She underscores the essential pluralism of the tales, their undercurrent of resistance to institutional authority, and their deep concern for the relationship between past and present. Bearing witness to the subtlety and resilience of even the most apparently conservative folk-literary forms, these stories are not only about the role of saints and miracles in an increasingly secular and industrial society but, first and foremost, also about the legacy of the Franco years. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Candace Slater EAN: 9780520357587 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 499 g HEIGHT: 234 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: University of California Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2021-01-08 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology WIDTH: 156 cm SPINE:

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      Europe, Literary theory, Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)

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      Candace Slater is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Berkeley. She is author of Stories on a String: The Brazilian Literatura de Cordel and Trail of Miracles: Stories from a Pilgrimage in Northeastern Brazil, and This Earth, That Sky. 

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