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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465450903321

Autore

Graziano Frank <1955->

Titolo

Wounds of love [[electronic resource] ] : the mystical marriage of Saint Rose of Lima / / Frank Graziano

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004

ISBN

9786610558773

1-280-55877-6

0-19-803121-1

1-4237-3530-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (353 p.)

Disciplina

282/.092

B

Soggetti

Christian saints - Peru - Lima

Electronic books.

Lima (Peru) Church history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-330) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1. Meanings in Motion; Sanctity and Insanity; Inversions; 2. Conditioned Perceptions; Constructing Sanctity; Life by the Book; The Prototype as Palimpsest; Sanctity as Tautology; Of Truth and Falsity; 3. Miracle of the Rose; Deflowering; Paradise Regained; The Odor of Sanctity; The Name of the Rose; 4. Why Rose of Lima?; 5. Mysticism as Dissent; The Politics of Canonization; Sublime Subversions; ""Obedezco pero no cumplo"; Virgin Warrior; 6. Vicarious Atonement; Sin and Expiation; The Poetics of Patronage; 7. Spiritualized Symptoms; The Mother; Traumatic Reliving; Erotic Agony

Delusional TruthsDesolate unto Bliss; 8. Psychosexual Faith; Eroticized Scripture; Return of the Repressed; 9. The Purgatory of Love; The Wound as Breast; Flames of Passion and Wounds of Love; Mystical Marriage; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

St. Rose of Lima (Isabel Flores y Oliva, 1586-1617) was canonized in 1671 as the first saint of the New World and Patron of the Americas. In this biography, Frank Graziano offers a comprehensive examination of



her life.