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(1983:102) señala que “liter-ary culture has replaced religion, and literary<br />

criticism theology, as the domain of earnest cultural cont<strong>en</strong>tion”.<br />

Vistas ya las implicaciones de la mediación <strong>en</strong> l<strong>en</strong>gua y literatura, cabe<br />

señalar que, <strong>en</strong> Davie, este concepto de mediación se hace ext<strong>en</strong>sivo<br />

explícitam<strong>en</strong>te, a la política, al derecho, la sociedad e, implícitam<strong>en</strong>te, a la<br />

religión. Profundam<strong>en</strong>te monárquico, Davie asigna <strong>en</strong> política el papel de<br />

mediador a la corona: “there is no monar-chism more ferv<strong>en</strong>t than that which<br />

looks to the Crown as to the one and only power in the State capable of<br />

redressing the inequalities involved in setting sheriff and bishop in authority<br />

over the r-est of us, and over us nonconformists more Iban mosí” (TC, 33).<br />

En este s<strong>en</strong>tido, hay también una transfer<strong>en</strong>cia de sacralidad a la<br />

monarquía (el subrayado es nuestro):<br />

And indeed lo a chrislian nation like the eighte<strong>en</strong>th c<strong>en</strong>tury English (not<br />

nominally but deeply christian), the figure of David, shepherd-king and warriorpsalmisl<br />

of anci<strong>en</strong>t Israel, could nol fail lo loom behind, and lo transfigure, Ihe<br />

image of any king whom they knew oc knew about. The myth of kinashio was<br />

for them underoinned bv scripturaí readino and relipious observance. This is<br />

surely a main pafl of thai ‘powerful psychic configuration’ which Hay postulates.<br />

(OM. 197><br />

En sociedad, la clase urbana media (pequeña burguesía, profesiones<br />

liberales> es, como hemos visto, <strong>en</strong> POD, el medio <strong>en</strong>tre la clase baja<br />

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