Teresa of Avila's autobiography: authority, power and self in mid-Sixteenth-Century Spain
Editorial LEGENDA
España peninsular
The Spanish mystic Teresa of Avila (1515-82) is the author of one of the most acclaimed early modern autobiographies (Vida, 1565), yet this is the first study to examine the impact of textual models on her self-construction. In looking at the issue o...
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- ISBN13 9781900755962
- ISBN10 1900755963
- Tipo LIBRO
- Páginas 211
- Año de Edición 2005
- Encuadernación Rústica
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Siglo De OroTeresa of Avila's autobiography: authority, power and self in mid-Sixteenth-Century Spain
Editorial LEGENDA
The Spanish mystic Teresa of Avila (1515-82) is the author of one of the most acclaimed early modern autobiographies (Vida, 1565), yet this is the first study to examine the impact of textual models on her self-construction. In looking at the issue o...
España peninsular
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The Spanish mystic Teresa of Avila (1515-82) is the author of one of the most acclaimed early modern autobiographies (Vida, 1565), yet this is the first study to examine the impact of textual models on her self-construction. In looking at the issue of the self, Carrera draws on the theories of Ricoeur and Foucault, and also applies a valuable historical perspective. Through a close analysis of devotional books and confessors' manuals, she establishes significant connections between Teresa's autobiography and the practices of meditative reading and confession in sixteenth-century Spain.