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Title: Thought and Poetic Structure in San Juan de la Cruz’s Symbol of Night

Thought and Poetic Structure in San Juan de la Cruz’s Symbol of Night

by N.Grace Aaron (Author)
©2005 Monographs XII, 266 Pages
Romance Studies
Series: Studies in the Humanities, Volume 66

Summary

Thought and Poetic Structure in San Juan de la Cruz’s Symbol of Night is a comprehensive appraisal of the traditional critical perspectives of mysticism: philosophical, theological, literary, and psychological. Examining the a priori limitations of these approaches, the book presents an original definition of the symbol as an integral whole of experience and expression, and concludes that night is the form – the organizing principle – of spiritual life.

Details

Pages
XII, 266
Year
2005
ISBN (Hardcover)
9780820470955
Language
English
Keywords
Saint Juan (de la Cruz) Noche escura del alma Mysticism John of the Cross
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2005. XII, 266 pp.

Biographical notes

N.Grace Aaron (Author)

The Author: N. Grace Aaron is Lecturer in Romance Languages at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she received her Ph.D. in Golden Age Spanish literature. She has taught Spanish language and literature at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, Montreat College in Montreat, North Carolina, and Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. She has written papers on C. S. Lewis, Cervantes, and José Antonio Maravall. In addition to the Spanish mystics, her research interests include second language acquisition and Christianity and literature.

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Title: Thought and Poetic Structure in San Juan de la Cruz’s Symbol of Night