Oh, of course, One Accepts the Gospels, Naturally”: Subversive Use of Bible Intertextuality in Graham Greene’s Monsignor Quixote

When Graham Greene wrote Monsignor Quixote (published in 1982), one of his aims was to reflect critically on the role of the Catholic Church in the Spain of the late 1970s, as well as on the support this institution offered to the former dictatorship of Franco within the so called ‘National Catholic...

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Autor: Valverde, Beatriz
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Jaén
Repositorio:RUJA. Repositorio Institucional de la Producción Científica de la Universidad de Jaén
OAI Identifier:oai:ruja.ujaen.es:10953/3147
Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.12697/IL.2020.25.1.16
https://hdl.handle.net/10953/3147
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Palabra clave:Graham Greene
Monsignor Quixote
Spanish Catholic Church
Bible intertextuality
Spain’s transition to democracy
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Valverde, Beatriz
Graham Greene
Monsignor Quixote
Spanish Catholic Church
Bible intertextuality
Spain’s transition to democracy
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Monsignor Quixote
Spanish Catholic Church
Bible intertextuality
Spain’s transition to democracy
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Monsignor Quixote
Spanish Catholic Church
Bible intertextuality
Spain’s transition to democracy
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