Between desire and passion : Teresa de Cartagena
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Between desire and passion : Teresa de Cartagena
(The medieval and early modern Iberian world, v. 48)
Brill, 2012
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-176) and index
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Teresa de Cartagena endured confinement as a nun, affliction as a deaf person, and isolation as an outcast, but she was finally able to dedicate herself to writing and to voice her suffering in her Arboleda de los enfermos. Her second treatise, Admiracion operum Dey, offers a defense against her male detractors and demands recognition by men and her society arguing that women had the intellect to write. To illuminate Teresa's distinctiveness as an author and a woman, the book locates her place in a line of European women intellectuals, and presents an indispensible dialogue among female European authors of the early modern age. By tracing her predecessors' literary and philosophical achievements, we can appreciate the multifaceted characteristics of Teresa's writings.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements...ix
Introduction Mapping Teresa de Cartagena amongst European Women Writers...1
1. Writing to Survive and Heal: Teresa de Cartagena's Life and Works...11
2. Writing with Traditional Discourses...35
3. Writing to Alleviate and Understand: First Part of Arboleda de los enfermos (Grove of the Infirm)...51
4. Writing to Instruct and Illuminate: Second Part of Arboleda de los enfermos (Grove of the Infirm)...83
5. Writing to Give Voice: Defense of Women...107
6. Writing with Irony: Defense of Woman's Voice and Discourse in Admiracion operum Dey (Wonder at the Works of God)...131
Appendix...159
Works Cited...163
Index...177
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