Download or read book Mystical Imagery written by Elizabeth Teresa Howe and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines the use of mystical imagery in the literary works of the 16th-century Spanish writers and mystics, Santa Teresa de Jesus and San Juan de la Cruz. In addition to the variety of sources on which they draw and the influence they exercise on later generations, what emerges in the study is a multivalent use of diverse images that is the mystics' means of grappling with the ineffable nature of mystical union."