Writing Teresa: The Saint from Avila at the fin-de-siglo

di Denise DuPont (Autore)

Bucknell University Press, 2011

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.

• Autore: Denise DuPont
• Editore: Bucknell University Press
• Anno: 2011
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 341 p.
• Dimensioni: 239 x 162 mm
• Peso: 599 gr.
• EAN: 9781611484069

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