Teresa my love : an imagined life of the Saint of Avila : a novel - Kristeva, Julia, 1941-; Fox, Lorna Scott (New York : Columbia University Press, 2015)
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.
Includes bibliographical references.
Keywords: Teresa, -- of Avila, Saint, -- 1515-1582 -- Fiction; Teresa, -- of Avila, Saint, -- 1515-1582.; Christian saints -- Spain -- Avila -- Biography -- Fiction; Christian saints; Spain -- Avila; Biography