Writing Teresa

The Saint from Avila at the fin-de-siglo

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, European, Spanish & Portuguese, Nonfiction, History, Spain & Portugal, European General
Cover of the book Writing Teresa by Denise DuPont, Southern Methodist University, Bucknell University Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Denise DuPont, Southern Methodist University ISBN: 9781611484076
Publisher: Bucknell University Press Publication: December 16, 2011
Imprint: Bucknell University Press Language: English
Author: Denise DuPont, Southern Methodist University
ISBN: 9781611484076
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Publication: December 16, 2011
Imprint: Bucknell University Press
Language: English

Writing Teresa: The Saint from Ávila at the fin-de-siglo examines the Teresa de Jesús “boom” of roughly 1880–1930, and offers an in-depth study of five major Spanish participants in the turn-of-the-twentieth-century explosion of literary treatments of St. Teresa. This historical period’s interest in the Saint from Ávila relates to popularization and nationalization of aspects of Catholicism, technological advances, a modernist fascination with saintly heroes, the search for new Spanish identities, and the evolving role of women writers and intellectuals. Teresa was mysticism in its historical context, energy in a time of doubt, the possibility of reconciling science and spirituality, a new vision for writing, and a maternal figure linked to the religion of the past for those who had lost the faith of their childhood.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

Writing Teresa: The Saint from Ávila at the fin-de-siglo examines the Teresa de Jesús “boom” of roughly 1880–1930, and offers an in-depth study of five major Spanish participants in the turn-of-the-twentieth-century explosion of literary treatments of St. Teresa. This historical period’s interest in the Saint from Ávila relates to popularization and nationalization of aspects of Catholicism, technological advances, a modernist fascination with saintly heroes, the search for new Spanish identities, and the evolving role of women writers and intellectuals. Teresa was mysticism in its historical context, energy in a time of doubt, the possibility of reconciling science and spirituality, a new vision for writing, and a maternal figure linked to the religion of the past for those who had lost the faith of their childhood.

More books from Bucknell University Press

Cover of the book The Complicity of Friends by Denise DuPont, Southern Methodist University
Cover of the book Post-Conflict Central American Literature by Denise DuPont, Southern Methodist University
Cover of the book Figures of Memory by Denise DuPont, Southern Methodist University
Cover of the book Effeminate Years by Denise DuPont, Southern Methodist University
Cover of the book Hospitality in a Time of Terror by Denise DuPont, Southern Methodist University
Cover of the book Cities Called Athens by Denise DuPont, Southern Methodist University
Cover of the book Re-Imagining Nature by Denise DuPont, Southern Methodist University
Cover of the book Wordsworth, Hemans, and Politics, 1800–1830 by Denise DuPont, Southern Methodist University
Cover of the book Bayard Taylor by Denise DuPont, Southern Methodist University
Cover of the book Romanticism, Origins, and the History of Heredity by Denise DuPont, Southern Methodist University
Cover of the book Gregory Rabassa's Latin American Literature by Denise DuPont, Southern Methodist University
Cover of the book Collecting from the Margins by Denise DuPont, Southern Methodist University
Cover of the book Sovereign Power and the Enlightenment by Denise DuPont, Southern Methodist University
Cover of the book Urbanism and Urbanity by Denise DuPont, Southern Methodist University
Cover of the book Antigone's Ghosts by Denise DuPont, Southern Methodist University
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy