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• catalog abstract "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.".
• catalog alternative "Saint Teresa of Avila.".
• catalog contributor b7440992.
• catalog created "c1995.".
• catalog date "1995".
• catalog date "c1995.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-197) and index.".
• catalog description "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.".
• catalog description "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.".
• catalog extent "xxii, 204 p. ;".
• catalog identifier "0520088026 (alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "1995".
• catalog issued "c1995.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Berkeley : University of California Press,".
• catalog subject "282/.092 B 20".
• catalog subject "BX4700.T4 S63 1995".
• catalog subject "Christian women saints Biography History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Teresa, of Avila, Saint, 1515-1582. Libro de la vida.".
• catalog tableOfContents "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.".
• catalog title "Saint Teresa of Avila.".
• catalog title "St. Teresa of Avila : author of a heroic life / Carole Slade.".
• catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
• catalog type "text".