Books+ Search Results
Teresa my love : an imagined life of the Saint of Avila : a novel
Uniform Title
Thérèse mon amour. English
Title
Teresa my love : an imagined life of the Saint of Avila : a novel / by Julia Kristeva ; translated by Lorna Scott Fox.
ISBN
9780231149600 (cloth : acid-free paper)
0231149603 (cloth : acid-free paper)
9780231520461 (ebook)
0231520468 (ebook)
Publication
New York : Columbia University Press, 2015.
Physical Description
xiv, 630 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Local Notes
Art copy from the Winterhouse Design and Visual Culture Collection.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 17, 2014
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Part 1: The Nothingness of All Things
1. Present by Default
2. Mystical Seduction
3. Dreaming, Music, Ocean
4. Homo Viator
Part 2:
Understanding Through Fiction
5. Prayer, Writing, Politics
6. How to Write Sensible Experience, or, of Water as the Fiction of Touch
7. The Imaginary of an Unfindable Sense Curled Into a God Findable in Me
Part 3:
The Wanderer
8. Everything So Constrained Me
9. Her Lovesickness
Part 4: Extreme Letters, Extremes of Being
11. Bombs and Ramparts
12. "Cristo como hombre"
13. Image, Vision, and Rapture
14. "The soul isn't in possession of its senses, but it rejoices"
15. A Clinical Lucidity
16. The Minx and the Sage
17. Better to Hide . . .?
18. ". . . Or 'to do what lies within my power' "?
19. From Hell to Foundation
Part 5:
From Ecstasy to Action
20. The Great Tide
21. Saint Joseph, the Virgin Mary, and His Majesty
22. The Maternal Vocation
23. Constituting Time
24. Tutti a cavallo
Part 6: Foundation-Persecution
25. The Mystic and the Jester
26. A Father Is Beaten to Death
27. A Runaway Girl
28. "Give me trials, Lord; give me persecutions"
29. "With the ears of the soul"
Part 7:
Dialogues from Beyond the Grave
30. Act I. Her Women
31. Act II. Her Eliseus
32. Act III: Her "Little Seneca"
33. Act IV. The Analyst's Farewell
Part 8:
Postscript
34. Letter to Denis Diderot on the Infinitesimal Subversion of a Nun.
Subjects
Also listed under
Bookmark As
Citation
