St. Teresa of Avila

  Preface
 expand sectionNote on Editions, Translations, Abbreviations, Terminology
  Chronology

  Introduction
 collapse section1  The Genres of the Book of Her Life
 Readings of the Life as Judicial Confession
 Teresa's Development as a Writer of Christian Autobiography
 expand section2  Teresa's Feminist Figural Readings of Scripture
 expand section3  Teresa's Representation of "Old Life" Life 1-10
 expand section4  Teresa's Analogies for Her Mystical Experience  Life 11-22, Interior Castle
 expand section5  Teresa's Representation of her "New Life"  Life 32-36, Foundations
  6  The Role of Teresa's Books in the Canonization Proceedings
  7  Epilogue  Psychoanalytic Interpretations of Teresa's Mystical Experience

  Appendix A Censure by Brother Eomingo BáñEz  [on the manuscript of the Life ]
  Appendix B Judgment , Attributed to Pedro IibáñEz
 expand sectionNotes
 expand sectionBibliography
 expand sectionIndex

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