The Resource St. Teresa of Avila : author of a heroic life, Carole Slade, (electronic resource)
St. Teresa of Avila : author of a heroic life, Carole Slade, (electronic resource)
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- Summary
- With few exceptions, representations of Renaissance women were created by men. The Spanish saint, Teresa of Avila (1515-1582), who chose to represent herself, was one of those exceptions. What prompted her to write Book of Her Life, Interior Castle, and other works? What does the self-portrait of this sixteenth-century nun, mystic, and founder of convents reveal about its author, the church, state, and role of women?St. Teresa of Avila, an innovative analysis of Teresa's autobiographical writings, explores these and many other questions. Bringing to bear a knowledge of Inquisition studies, theory of autobiography, scriptural hermeneutics, and hagiography, Carole Slade defines Teresa's writings as a project of self-interpretation undertaken mainly as the result of the perceived, later realized, threat of an accusation of heresy. Being female and of paternal Jewish ancestry, Teresa was vulnerable to such a charge. Teresa's writing project presented her with serious difficulties. Judicial confession, her prescribed genre, presumed the writer's guilt, while the subordinate female script precluded a defense against the suspicion that her mystical experiences came from the devil. Through careful textual analysis, Slade demonstrates that Teresa exploited the nuances of numerous genres - hagiography, New World chronicle, mystical theological treatise, and early novel - to create an innocent textual persona and depict herself in heroic terms. A signal contribution to our understanding of Teresa's rhetorical and literary talent and life circumstances, this book will engage readers across a broad range of disciplines. Publisher's description
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xxii, 204 pages)
- Note
- Description based on print version record
- Contents
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- The genres of the Book of her life
- Teresa's feminist figural readings of scripture
- Teresa's representation of "old life": Life 1-10
- Teresa's analogies for her mystical experience: Life 11-22, Interior castle
- Teresa's representation of her "new life": Life 32-36, Foundations
- The role of Teresa's books in the canonization proceedings
- Epilogue: Psychoanalytic interpretations of Teresa's mystical experience
- Appendix A: Censure by Brother Eomingo Báñez [on the manuscript of the Life]
- Appendix B: Judgment, attributed to Pedro Iibáñez
- Label
- St. Teresa of Avila : author of a heroic life
- Title
- St. Teresa of Avila
- Title remainder
- author of a heroic life
- Statement of responsibility
- Carole Slade
- Title variation
- Saint Teresa of Avila
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- With few exceptions, representations of Renaissance women were created by men. The Spanish saint, Teresa of Avila (1515-1582), who chose to represent herself, was one of those exceptions. What prompted her to write Book of Her Life, Interior Castle, and other works? What does the self-portrait of this sixteenth-century nun, mystic, and founder of convents reveal about its author, the church, state, and role of women?St. Teresa of Avila, an innovative analysis of Teresa's autobiographical writings, explores these and many other questions. Bringing to bear a knowledge of Inquisition studies, theory of autobiography, scriptural hermeneutics, and hagiography, Carole Slade defines Teresa's writings as a project of self-interpretation undertaken mainly as the result of the perceived, later realized, threat of an accusation of heresy. Being female and of paternal Jewish ancestry, Teresa was vulnerable to such a charge. Teresa's writing project presented her with serious difficulties. Judicial confession, her prescribed genre, presumed the writer's guilt, while the subordinate female script precluded a defense against the suspicion that her mystical experiences came from the devil. Through careful textual analysis, Slade demonstrates that Teresa exploited the nuances of numerous genres - hagiography, New World chronicle, mystical theological treatise, and early novel - to create an innocent textual persona and depict herself in heroic terms. A signal contribution to our understanding of Teresa's rhetorical and literary talent and life circumstances, this book will engage readers across a broad range of disciplines. Publisher's description
- Cataloging source
- CUSER
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Slade, Carole
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- BX4700.T4
- LC item number
- S63 1995
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Teresa
- Christian women saints
- Label
- St. Teresa of Avila : author of a heroic life, Carole Slade, (electronic resource)
- Note
- Description based on print version record
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The genres of the Book of her life -- Teresa's feminist figural readings of scripture -- Teresa's representation of "old life": Life 1-10 -- Teresa's analogies for her mystical experience: Life 11-22, Interior castle -- Teresa's representation of her "new life": Life 32-36, Foundations -- The role of Teresa's books in the canonization proceedings -- Epilogue: Psychoanalytic interpretations of Teresa's mystical experience -- Appendix A: Censure by Brother Eomingo Báñez [on the manuscript of the Life] -- Appendix B: Judgment, attributed to Pedro Iibáñez
- Control code
- 44960634
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xxii, 204 pages)
- Form of item
- electronic
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)214508569
- Label
- St. Teresa of Avila : author of a heroic life, Carole Slade, (electronic resource)
- Note
- Description based on print version record
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The genres of the Book of her life -- Teresa's feminist figural readings of scripture -- Teresa's representation of "old life": Life 1-10 -- Teresa's analogies for her mystical experience: Life 11-22, Interior castle -- Teresa's representation of her "new life": Life 32-36, Foundations -- The role of Teresa's books in the canonization proceedings -- Epilogue: Psychoanalytic interpretations of Teresa's mystical experience -- Appendix A: Censure by Brother Eomingo Báñez [on the manuscript of the Life] -- Appendix B: Judgment, attributed to Pedro Iibáñez
- Control code
- 44960634
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xxii, 204 pages)
- Form of item
- electronic
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)214508569
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