Poesía y pensamiento de santa Teresa de Jesús
Poesía y pensamiento de santa Teresa de Jesús

Author: Santa Teresa de Jesús

Publisher: Alianza Editorial

Published: 2018-10-18

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 8491813136

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Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumada (1515-1582), más conocida como Santa Teresa de Jesús, es una de las figuras más extraordinarias de su época, así como de toda nuestra historia. Su personalidad combativa, su carácter extrovertido, sus experiencias místicas, el hecho de que reflejara buena parte de sus vivencias y pensamientos por escrito pese a su condición de mujer y de religiosa en el siglo XVI en España (lo que le supuso no pocos problemas y trabas), hacen de ella una precursora y una figura de interés universal. Precedido de un breve e iluminador prólogo de Clara Janés, autora también de la selección de los textos, el libro proporciona una muestra tan sutil como acertada de la obra de la santa de Ávila, y con ella una panorámica completa de su personalidad e influencia.

Writing Teresa
Writing Teresa

Author: Denise DuPont

Publisher: Bucknell University Press

Published: 2011-12-16

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 1611484073

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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.

Transatlantic Studies
Transatlantic Studies

Author: Cecilia Enjuto-Rangel

Publisher: Contemporary Hispanic and Luso

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 1789620252

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This book emerges from, and performs, an ongoing debate about transatlantic approaches in the fields of Iberian, Latin American, African, and Luso-Brazilian studies. In thirty-five short essays, leading scholars reframe the intertwined cultural histories of the transnational spaces encompassed by the former Spanish and Portuguese empires.

Pope Francis
Pope Francis

Author: Marie Duhamel

Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal

Published: 2016-10-18

Total Pages: 723

ISBN-13: 0316317764

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From the moment he was elected into the papacy, Pope Francis has captured the attention of the world with his humility, charisma, and reformist spirit. This one-of-a-kind, illustrated biography of the first Jesuit pope offers more than 250 photographs and 50 removable documents from Francis's life. Written by Vatican Radio reporter Marie Duhamel, this intimate portrait includes his parents emigration from Italy, his birth as Jorge Mario Bergoglio in 1936, his love of soccer and opera as a child, the pneumonia that nearly cost him his life as a young adult, his calling to the priesthood, and his first encounter with poverty as a missionary in Chile that would change his life. Duhamel chronicles Francis's rise from priest to bishop to cardinal to the papacy and how, along the way, he impressed many people-and alienated some-with his courage to stand up to authority and his dedication to helping the poor. Enclosed documents such as his baptism certificate, photographs from his childhood, pages from a school notebook, handwritten notes as pope, and even a support card for his beloved San Lorenzo soccer club, further illuminate his life and create a lasting keepsake of this pope of the people.

Approaches to Teaching Teresa of Ávila and the Spanish Mystics
Approaches to Teaching Teresa of Ávila and the Spanish Mystics

Author: Alison Weber

Publisher: Modern Language Association of America

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9781603290234

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The writings of Teresa of Ávila and the Spanish mystics, most notably John of the Cross and Luis de León, aroused passionate responses when they were composed. Though today's students realize that religious beliefs have wide-ranging consequences, they are presented with particular challenges in studying the Spanish mystics because of their unfamiliarity with the linguistic, social, and religious history of early modern Spain. This volume is designed to help instructors elicit students' curiosity, sympathy, and appreciation for writings that can at first seem alien or confusing. Part 1, "Materials," recommends accessible editions and translations; print, electronic, and visual resources; background and critical studies; and sources on the philosophical and theological responses to the Spanish mystics. Part 2, "Approaches," presents methods for teaching the historical contexts of and various theoretical perspectives on the mystics' works. Contributors consider these authors in relation to Islamic and Jewish mysticism, the traditions of women's writing, feminism, theology, and autobiography. They also recommend ways to teach particular texts in different kinds of courses and institutions.

Traditionalism in the Works of Francisco de Quevedo Y Villegas
Traditionalism in the Works of Francisco de Quevedo Y Villegas

Author: Doris L. Baum

Publisher: Unc Department of Romance Studies

Published: 1970

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13:

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This study offers an investigation of the various facets of Spanish Traditionalism--political, religious, literary, cultural, and stylistic--through the works of Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas, one of the most complex authors of the Spanish Golden Age. Each chapter in the volume opens with a general history of the discreet facet of traditionalism that it treats. By this structure, the book is able to present a new approach to the understanding of the content and style of the works of Quevedo. Dr. Doris L. Baum consolidates the spirit of Quevedo's complex works, offering access to an underlying unity.