“She was not born a saint but became one” (sic): a path of perfection and models of sanctity in the autographic notebooks of Juanita Fernández Solar (1917-1919)
The writings of Juanita Fernández Solar (Teresa de los Andes) were published under the titles Escritos Espirituales (1971) and Diario y cartas (1983), with the clear objective of constructing a hagiographic narrative in order to elevate the young woman to the altars, within the context of her beatif...
| Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | master thesis |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2022 |
| Country: | Chile |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.anid.cl:10533/42563 |
| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10533/42563 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Humanidades Lenguage y Literatura Literatura específica |
| Summary: | The writings of Juanita Fernández Solar (Teresa de los Andes) were published under the titles Escritos Espirituales (1971) and Diario y cartas (1983), with the clear objective of constructing a hagiographic narrative in order to elevate the young woman to the altars, within the context of her beatification and subsequent canonization. Given this situated reception framework, this research aims to discursively analyze Juanita Fernández Solar’s original autographic notebooks, produced between 1917 and 1919, since the main objective of this study is to establish the discourses used by the speaker to build her path toward spiritual perfection. Consequently, it becomes crucial to observe what are those discourses, their characteristics and to what specific enunciation they respond. Therefore, the study is organized into two main sections: the delimitation of theoretical notions on “referential genres” and “discourses”; and the analysis of the autographic notebooks through these critical and theoretical tools. Thus, it will be considered the presence of different referential genres (autobiography, diary and letters) and also the imitation of different discursive models of Carmelite nuns: Libro de la vida (1562) of Teresa de Ávila and Historia de una alma of Teresa de Lisieux (1898), mainly. In synthesis, this research involves the analysis of the path of perfection that is deployed in Juanita Fernández Solar’s autographic notebooks, taking into account the discursive aspects of her enunciation. |
|---|