Santa Teresa : Critical Insights, Filiations, Responses / Dr. Martina Bengert, Iris Roebling-Grau

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bengert, Dr. Martina, Editor.

Roebling-Grau, Iris, Editor.

Series:

Orbis romanicus ; volumen 10, 2019.

Orbis Romanicus 10

Language:

English

German

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Teresa von Ávila.

Rezeptionsgeschichte.

Mystik.

Santa Teresa.

écriture féminin.

Local Subjects:

Teresa von Ávila.

Rezeptionsgeschichte.

Mystik.

Santa Teresa.

écriture féminin.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tübingen Narr Francke Attempto Verlag 2019

Language Note:

11 English, 1 Spanish, 6 German contributions.

Biography/History:

Dr. Iris Roebling-Grau ist Privatdozentin an der FU Berlin für die Fächer Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft und Romanische Philologie. Dr. Martina Bengert, Akademische Rätin a.Z., ist wissenschaftliche Assistentin am Institut für Romanische Philologie der LMU München. Sie unterrichtet französische und spanische Literaturwissenschaft.

Summary:

Even prior to her widely observed 500th anniversary, Teresa of Ávila (1515-1582) was already considered one of the most important authors of occidental mysticism. This volume gathers together contributions from a multitude of disciplines to explore the writings and reception of the Spanish author and saint. Previously disregarded lines of tradition are explored for a new understanding of her oeuvre, which is examined here with special regard to the potential to affect its readers. Teresa proves to not only be an accomplished, but also a very literary writer. 'Santa Teresa' proves to be a figure of cultural memory, and the diffusion of her thinking is traced up to the present, whereby a recurrent focus is put on the phenomenon of ecstasy. Part of the widespread resonance of her work is the image of the iconic saint whose emergence as an international phenomenon is presented here for the first time. The volume is closed by an interview with Marina Abramovic answering four questions about Teresa.

Contents:

Teresa von Ávila und Martin Luther : Annäherung an zwei Gottesfreunde / Mariano Delgado

"Como león bramando" : Jewish motifs in Teresa of Ávila's poetry / Gerold Necker

Die Unterscheidung der Geister in den Schriften Teresas von Ávila und ihre Rezeption bei Edith Stein / Michael Plattig O. Carm

Teresa de Jesús : "The Power of Words" / Juan Antonio Marcos O.C.D.

The text as mirror : the Book of Her Life and the Vita Christi / Iris Roebling-Grau

Das Leichte ist das Schwerste : Überlegungen zur Heiligen Teresa des Gianlorenzo Bernini / Joseph Imorde

Gewinne und Verluste : Madame Guyon als kreative leserin der Teresa von Ávila / Bernhard Teuber

The meaning of St. Teresa's work for four Victorian women / Carole Slade

Illness narrative, hysteria, and sainthood : Santa Teresa as a case study / Jutta Weiser

"Je ne vis plus d'être vivante, et ne mourrai pas d'être morte!" : Teresa von Ávila in der Lyrik Anna de Noailles' / Jenny Haase

Humility and hope in the 1914 homage to St. Teresa of Ávila / Denise Dupont

The instrumentalization of the myth of Santa Teresa and of the Virgen del Pilar

A question of reference, construction, and composition : the city of Santa Teresa in Roberto Bolaño's 2666 / Martina Bengert

Julia Kristeva's new humanism : imagining Teresa of Avila for the twenty-first century / Racheal Fest

The luminous body as image and word : reading Teresa with Marina Abramović / Devin Zuber

Die Ekstasen der Teresa von Ávila : phänomenologie, krankheit und resilienz / Torsten Passie, Elisabeth Petrow

Letras del cielo / Alicia Dujovne Ortiz

Touching Teresa : Marina Abramović answers four questions (Interview with Devin Zuber, New York, January 19, 2019) / Marina Abramović.

Notes:

[1. Auflage]

ISBN:

3-8233-9246-8

Publisher Number:

9783823392460