Writing Teresa
Bucknell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-61148-406-9 (ISBN)
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.
Denise DuPont is associate professor of Spanish at Southern Methodist University.
Acknowledgments
Introduction. An Hour with Teresa: The Saint and Her Interpreters
Science, Mysticism, Spiritualism, and the Feminine
Catholicism in Nineteenth-Century Spain: Teresa as Popular Holy Mother
Nationalizing Teresa: The Third Centennial, and Political Divisions
Creating National Culture: The Role of Scholars
Fin-de-siglo Exploration of Spanish Identity: The Saintly Hero in Literature
Teresa in Turn-of-the-Century Spain: Male and Female Perspectives
Stories of Teresa in Clarín, Pardo Bazán, Unamuno, Azorín, and Blanca de los Ríos
An Hour with Teresa (1880-1930)
Chapter One. Clarín’s Teresa: the faith of the mother
Teresa: national pathology or national project?
Clarín as critic: On Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo and Benito Pérez Galdós
La Regenta: Female Affliction and Male Desire
Mothers, Nuns, and supercherías
Saintly Pairs: Salvation for Clarín and the Nation
Chapter Two. Emilia Pardo Bazán and Teresa de Jesús, in public and private
Franciscanism, Mysticism and the Heroic Woman Writer
A Model for Women: Teresa on the National Stage
Sainthood and Superiority: La Quimera and Dulce Dueño
Postscript: Teresa and the Return to Community
Chapter Three. Unamuno and the Agony of Teresa
En torno al casticismo: Teresa’s Interior Castles
Vida de Don Quijote y Sancho: Divine Quijotess
Del sentimiento trágico de la vida: The Agonies of Teresa as Super-Self
La tía Tula: Teresa and Her Family
Unamuno, Poet: A Lyrics of Teresa
Additional Agony, and Dreams of Liberty
Chapter Four. Heroism and Humility: Azorín Writes Teresa
The Early Years, and the Unbearable Whiteness of the Eternal Feminine
The Past is not Present: Teresa’s Inaccessibility and the Author’s Doubts
Bringing the Classics to Life
Authority and Intervention: Rescuing Teresa
Fictions and Fantasies of Teresa’s Savior and Disciple
“La humildad es la verdad”: Final Lessons from Teresa
Chapter Five. Blanca de los Ríos: Teresa as Mother of Tradition
The Women of Tirso: Teresa in Gabriel Téllez
Teresa as Hero: Linguistic Maternity and the Woman’s Pen
Addressing Women: Teresa in Blanca de los Ríos’s Present
A Teresa for the Future
Conclusion. Public and Private Teresas
Works Cited
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 16.2.2012 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Cranbury |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 162 x 239 mm |
| Gewicht | 599 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-61148-406-5 / 1611484065 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-61148-406-9 / 9781611484069 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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