Approaches to Teaching Teresa of Avila and the Spanish Mystics

Informationen zum Autor Alison Weber is professor of Spanish at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Teresa of Ávila and the Rhetoric of Femininity and the editor of For the Hour of Recreation, by Maria de San José Salazar. Her work concentrates on gender and religious experience in early modern Spain. Klappentext The writings of Teresa of Avila and the Spanish mystics, most notably John of the Cross and Luis de Leon, 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.

Product details

• Authors: Alison (EDT) Weber
• Assisted by: Alison Weber (Editor)
• Publisher: Modern Language Assn Of Amer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2009
• EAN: 9781603290227
• ISBN: 978-1-60329-022-7
• Series: Approaches to Teaching World L; Approaches to Teaching World Literature; Approaches to Teaching World Literature 109; Approaches to Teaching World L; Approaches to Teaching World Literature 109
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies