Teresa, My Love
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Teresa, My Love

An Imagined Life of the Saint of Avila

  1. 648 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Teresa, My Love

An Imagined Life of the Saint of Avila

About this book

In the vein of A. S. Byatt's Possession, a scholar immerses herself in a quest to reconstruct the life of an ecstatic saint, turning a past world into a modern marvel.

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Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2014
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9780231520461
Topic
Scienze sociali
Subtopic
Biografie nell'ambito delle scienze sociali

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Abbreviations and Chronology
  3. Part 1. The Nothingness of All Things
  4. Chapter 1. Present by Default
  5. Chapter 2. Mystical Seduction
  6. Chapter 3. Dreaming, Music, Ocean
  7. Chapter 4. Homo viator
  8. Part 2. Understanding Through Fiction
  9. Chapter 5. Prayer, Writing, Politics
  10. Chapter 6. How to Write Sensible Experience, or, of Water as the Fiction of Touch
  11. Chapter 7. The Imaginary of an Unfindable Sense Curled into a God Findable in Me
  12. Part 3. The Wanderer
  13. Chapter 8. Everything So Constrained Me
  14. Chapter 9. Her Lovesickness
  15. Chapter 10. The Ideal Father and the Host
  16. Part 4. Extreme Letters, Extremes of Being
  17. Chapter 11. Bombs and Ramparts
  18. Chapter 12. “Cristo como hombre”
  19. Chapter 13. Image, Vision, and Rapture
  20. Chapter 14. “The soul isn’t in possession of its senses, but it rejoices”
  21. Chapter 15. A Clinical Lucidity
  22. Chapter 16. The Minx and the Sage
  23. Chapter 17. Better to Hide . . . ?
  24. Chapter 18. “. . . or ‘to do what lies within my power’”?
  25. Chapter 19. From Hell to Foundation
  26. Part 5. From Ecstasy to Action
  27. Chapter 20. The Great Tide
  28. Chapter 21. Saint Joseph, the Virgin Mary, and His Majesty
  29. Chapter 22. The Maternal Vocation
  30. Chapter 23. Constituting Time
  31. Chapter 24. Tutti a Cavallo
  32. Part 6. Foundation– Persecution
  33. Chapter 25. The Mystic and the Jester
  34. Chapter 26. A Father Is Beaten to Death
  35. Chapter 27. A Runaway Girl
  36. Chapter 28. “Give me trials, Lord ; give me persecutions”
  37. Chapter 29. “With the ears of the soul”
  38. Part 7. Dialogues from Beyond the Grave
  39. Chapter 30. Act 1. Her Women
  40. Chapter 31. Act 2. Her Eliseus
  41. Chapter 32. Act 3. Her “Little Seneca”
  42. Chapter 33. Act 4. The Analyst’s Farewell
  43. Part 8. Postscript
  44. Chapter 34. Letter to Denis Diderot on the Infinitesimal Subversion of a Nun
  45. Notes
  46. Sources

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