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Elena Carrera
Teresa of Avila”s Autobiography [EPUB ebook]
Authority, Power and the Self in Mid-sixteenth Century Spain

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The Spanish mystic Teresa of Avila (1515-82), author of one of the most acclaimed early modern autobiographies (Vida, 1565), has generated a wealth of literary, historical and theological studies, yet none to date has examined the impact of textual models on Teresa”s self-construction. In looking at the issue of the self, Carrera draws on revisions

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Format EPUB ● Pages 212 ● ISBN 9781351197052 ● Publisher Taylor and Francis ● Published 2019 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 6818971 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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