Thy mystical language is described by its paradoxical nature between the necessity of expression and the impossibility of finding words to represent it. We intend to analyze some possible connections between the paradox of „ineffability“ and some rhetorical devices, which are connected to the topos of humility as described by Ernst Curtius. Teresa might have used some of these devices, such as captatio benevolentiae, as an attemt to aprehend her experience.
This paper deals with different possible ways to approach the idea of the “Earthly Paradise” in a religious chronicle, written by Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora. His work connects the mythological and utopian understanding of the “Paradise”, placed in the West, with its religious and allegorical dimension. His possible aim is to display the patriotic pride through the hagiographical depiction of virtuous nuns.
The aim of this paper is to analyze different possible ways to approach the code of love in the hagiographical biography of New Spain’s nun María de Jesús Tomellín, who lived in the 16th century in Puebla de los Ángeles. Firstly, it focuses on the relation between the understanding of love in the so called nuptial mysticism and the profane amorous code, especially courtly love. After that we study possible parallels between the secular and sacred amorous realm in the hagiographical text.
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