Voile et secret dans les écrits de la Mère Agnès Arnauld
- Publication type: Journal article
- Journal: Cahiers de littérature française. L’imaginaire des saintes
2015, n° 14 - Author: Mariotti (Flavia)
- Abstract: By analysing the writings of Mother Agnès Arnauld, this paper explores the nuanced symbolism of the veil at Port-Royal, and the type of imagery it inspires. From her Chapelet secret to her later writings, the contradictory values that the veil symbolises – separation and union, concealment and revelation – take on different connotations in relation to the abbess’ spiritual development. The veil’s imagery acquires richness and complexity when compounded by the image of the bottom of the heart as the secret site of inner life, thus conveying both the abbess’s spiritual and psychological attitudes.
- Pages: 79 to 95
- Journal: Studies in French Literature
- CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
- EAN: 9782812450273
- ISBN: 978-2-8124-5027-3
- ISSN: 2430-8293
- DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-8124-5027-3.p.0079
- Publisher: Classiques Garnier
- Online publication: 10-02-2015
- Periodicity: Annual
- Language: French