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The Resource Teresa my love : an imagined life of the saint of Avila, Julia Kristeva ; translated by Lorna Scott Fox, (electronic resource)
Teresa my love : an imagined life of the saint of Avila, Julia Kristeva ; translated by Lorna Scott Fox, (electronic resource)
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The item Teresa my love : an imagined life of the saint of Avila, Julia Kristeva ; translated by Lorna Scott Fox, (electronic resource) represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Calgary Public Library.
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- Summary
- Mixing fiction, history, psychoanalysis, and personal fantasy, Teresa, My Love follows Sylvia Leclercq, a French psychoanalyst, academic, and incurable insomniac, as she falls for the sixteenth-century Saint Teresa of Avila and becomes consumed with charting her life. Traveling to Spain, Leclercq, Kristeva's probing alterego, visits the sites and embodiments of the famous mystic and awakens to her own desire for faith, connection, and rebellion. One of Kristeva's most passionate and transporting works, Teresa, My Love interchanges biography, autobiography, analysis, dramatic dialogue, musical
- Language
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- eng
- fre
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Note
-
- This is an Overdrive title
- Translation of : Thérèse mon amour : récit : Saint Thérèse d'Avila ; [Paris] : Fayard, ©2008
- Description based upon print version of record
- Contents
-
- 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"
- Part 1:
- 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
- The Nothingness of All Things
- 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"
- 1. Present by Default
- 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
- 2. Mystical Seduction
- 3. Dreaming, Music, Ocean
- 4. Homo Viator
- Part 2:
- Understanding Through Fiction
- Isbn
- 9780231520461
- Label
- Teresa my love : an imagined life of the saint of Avila
- Title
- Teresa my love
- Title remainder
- an imagined life of the saint of Avila
- Statement of responsibility
- Julia Kristeva ; translated by Lorna Scott Fox
- Language
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- eng
- fre
- eng
- Summary
- Mixing fiction, history, psychoanalysis, and personal fantasy, Teresa, My Love follows Sylvia Leclercq, a French psychoanalyst, academic, and incurable insomniac, as she falls for the sixteenth-century Saint Teresa of Avila and becomes consumed with charting her life. Traveling to Spain, Leclercq, Kristeva's probing alterego, visits the sites and embodiments of the famous mystic and awakens to her own desire for faith, connection, and rebellion. One of Kristeva's most passionate and transporting works, Teresa, My Love interchanges biography, autobiography, analysis, dramatic dialogue, musical
- Cataloging source
- EBLCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1941-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Kristeva, Julia
- Dewey number
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- 282.092
- B
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- BX4700.T4
- LC item number
- K7513 2014
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Fox, Lorna Scott
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Teresa
- Christian saints
- RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic
- Label
- Teresa my love : an imagined life of the saint of Avila, Julia Kristeva ; translated by Lorna Scott Fox, (electronic resource)
- Note
-
- This is an Overdrive title
- Translation of : Thérèse mon amour : récit : Saint Thérèse d'Avila ; [Paris] : Fayard, ©2008
- Description based upon print version of record
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Color
- multicolored
- Contents
-
- 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"
- Part 1:
- 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
- The Nothingness of All Things
- 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"
- 1. Present by Default
- 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
- 2. Mystical Seduction
- 3. Dreaming, Music, Ocean
- 4. Homo Viator
- Part 2:
- Understanding Through Fiction
- Control code
- ocn893332664
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780231520461
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- CF30764D-BCEA-4B88-9AA4-72F051B7CB5A
- System control number
- (OCoLC)893332664
- Label
- Teresa my love : an imagined life of the saint of Avila, Julia Kristeva ; translated by Lorna Scott Fox, (electronic resource)
- Note
-
- This is an Overdrive title
- Translation of : Thérèse mon amour : récit : Saint Thérèse d'Avila ; [Paris] : Fayard, ©2008
- Description based upon print version of record
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Color
- multicolored
- Contents
-
- 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"
- Part 1:
- 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
- The Nothingness of All Things
- 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"
- 1. Present by Default
- 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
- 2. Mystical Seduction
- 3. Dreaming, Music, Ocean
- 4. Homo Viator
- Part 2:
- Understanding Through Fiction
- Control code
- ocn893332664
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780231520461
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- CF30764D-BCEA-4B88-9AA4-72F051B7CB5A
- System control number
- (OCoLC)893332664
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