In essays on topics ranging from Teresa of Avila's sixteenth-century mysticism to the politicized spirituality of postmodern women writers, the contributors to Things of the Spirit chronicle the development of women's spiritual writing as a context for defining, challenging, and changing women's experiences in the world. They explore the nature of the sacred and women's relationship to the sacred in the writings of women poets, diarists, autobiographers, and fiction writers. Kristina Groover contends that identifying and analyzing women's spiritual writing relies on redefining the sacred....
In essays on topics ranging from Teresa of Avila's sixteenth-century mysticism to the politicized spirituality of postmodern women writers, the contri...
In essays on topics ranging from Teresa of Avila's sixteenth-century mysticism to the politicized spirituality of postmodern women writers, the contributors to Things of the Spirit chronicle the development of women's spiritual writing as a context for defining, challenging, and changing women's experiences in the world. They explore the nature of the sacred and women's relationship to the sacred in the writings of women poets, diarists, autobiographers, and fiction writers. Kristina Groover contends that identifying and analyzing women's spiritual writing relies on redefining the sacred....
In essays on topics ranging from Teresa of Avila's sixteenth-century mysticism to the politicized spirituality of postmodern women writers, the contri...
In supporting her thesis that women fiction characters do in unique ways embody the American literary motif of spiritually questing heroes, Groover (English, Appalachian State U., North Carolina) re-visions how transformations occur within the constraints of the home as sacred space, in spiritual communities and the telling of sacred stories. Her analysis features works by Arnow, Cather, Gibbons, Huston, Jewett, Morrison, Porter, and Walker.
In supporting her thesis that women fiction characters do in unique ways embody the American literary motif of spiritually questing heroes, Groover (E...
In supporting her thesis that women fiction characters do in unique ways embody the American literary motif of spiritually questing heroes, Groover (English, Appalachian State U., North Carolina) re-visions how transformations occur within the constraints of the home as sacred space, in spiritual communities and the telling of sacred stories. Her analysis features works by Arnow, Cather, Gibbons, Huston, Jewett, Morrison, Porter, and Walker.
In supporting her thesis that women fiction characters do in unique ways embody the American literary motif of spiritually questing heroes, Groover (E...
