Session Details

Saturday, 29 December

623. Mysticism and Spirituality

7:15–8:30 p.m., Colorado, Sheraton Chicago

Program arranged by the Division on Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Poetry and Prose

Presiding: Elizabeth B. Davis, Ohio State Univ., Columbus

1. “Neurological Impairment, Disability, and the Conception of a Feminine Mystical Discourse: Teresa de Ávila,” Encarnación Juárez-Almendros, Univ. of Notre Dame

2. “Body Parts: Anatomy and Mystical Experience in San Juan de la Cruz,” Mary E. Barnard, Penn State Univ., University Park

3. “(Un)Exemplary Masculinity in Fray Juan de los Ángeles’s Lucha espiritual y amorosa entre Dios y el alma,” Sanda Munjic, Univ. of Toronto

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