| Writing Teresa: The Saint from Avila at the fin-de-siglo Contributor(s): DuPont, Denise (Author) |
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ISBN: 1611484065 ISBN-13: 9781611484069 Publisher: Bucknell University Press OUR PRICE: $131.67 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - Spanish & Portuguese - History | Europe - Spain & Portugal - Religion | Christianity - Catholic |
| Dewey: 860.900 |
| LCCN: 2011042176 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.30 lbs) 341 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Catholic - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Writing Teresa: The Saint from vila at the fin-de-siglo examines the Teresa de Jes s "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 vila 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. |