Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

Pasión and afección in Teresa of Avila and Francisco de Osuna

2007; Routledge; Volume: 84; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/14753820701237381

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Elena Carrera,

Early Modern Spanish Literature

In Teresa la Santa, Americo Castro spoke of St Teresa as a ‘feminine soul’, and her writings as a mixture of thought, emotion and fantasy.1 The ‘femininity’ which emerges from her writings has sinc...