Teresa my love
Subtitle: an imagined life of the Saint of Avila : a novel
By: by Julia Kristeva ; translated by Lorna Scott Fox
Contributors: Fox, Lorna Scott, translator
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 630
ISBN-13: 9780231149600
Subjects: Christian saints; Biographical fiction; Biography; Fiction
Work titles: Thérèse mon amour
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part 1:; title: The Nothingness of All Things --; title: 1. Present by Default --; title: 2. Mystical Seduction --; title: 3. Dreaming, Music, Ocean --; title: 4. Homo Viator -- -- Part 2:; title: Understanding Through Fiction --; title: 5. Prayer, Writing, Politics --; title: 6. How to Write Sensible Experience, or, of Water as the Fiction of Touch --; title: 7. The Imaginary of an Unfindable Sense Curled Into a God Findable in Me -- -- Part 3:; title: The Wanderer --; title: 8. Everything So Constrained Me --; title: 9. Her Lovesickness --; title: 10. The ideal father and the Host -- -- Part 4: Extreme Letters, Extremes of Being; title: 11. Bombs and Ramparts --; title: 12. "Cristo como hombre" --; title: 13. Image, Vision, and Rapture --; title: 14. "The soul isn't in possession of its senses, but it rejoices" --; title: 15. A Clinical Lucidity --; title: 16. The Minx and the Sage --; title: 17. Better to Hide . . .? --; title: 18. ". . . Or 'to do what lies within my power' "? --; title: 19. From Hell to Foundation -- -- Part 5:; title: From Ecstasy to Action --; title: 20. The Great Tide --; title: 21. Saint Joseph, the Virgin Mary, and His Majesty --; title: 22. The Maternal Vocation --; title: 23. Constituting Time --; title: 24. Tutti a cavallo -- -- Part 6: Foundation-Persecution; title: 25. The Mystic and the Jester --; title: 26. A Father Is Beaten to Death --; title: 27. A Runaway Girl --; title: 28. "Give me trials, Lord; give me persecutions" --; title: 29. "With the ears of the soul" -- -- Part 7:; title: Dialogues from Beyond the Grave --; title: 30. Act I. Her Women --; title: 31. Act II. Her Eliseus --; title: 32. Act III: Her "Little Seneca" --; title: 33. Act IV. The Analyst's Farewell -- -- Part 8:; title: Postscript --; title: 34. Letter to Denis Diderot on the Infinitesimal Subversion of a Nun.