Download e-book for iPad: Writing Teresa: The Saint from Avila at the fin-de-siglo by Denise DuPont

By Denise DuPont

Writing Teresa: The Saint from Ávila on the fin-de-siglo examines the Teresa de Jesús “boom” of approximately 1880–1930, and gives an in-depth learn of 5 significant Spanish individuals within the turn-of-the-twentieth-century explosion of literary remedies of St. Teresa. This ancient period’s curiosity within the Saint from Ávila pertains to popularization and nationalization of points of Catholicism, technological advances, a modernist fascination with saintly heroes, the hunt for brand new Spanish identities, and the evolving function of girls writers and intellectuals. Teresa used to be mysticism in its ancient context, strength in a time of doubt, the potential of reconciling technology and spirituality, a brand new imaginative and prescient for writing, and a maternal determine associated with the faith of the earlier in case you had misplaced the religion in their youth.

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