O Analiză Discursivă Asupra Celor Două Diate Ale Mariei Cantemir Și a Unui Model Testamentar Inedit De La Sfârşitul Secolului Al Xviii-Lea

Abstract The present paper endeavours to offer a brief analysis of two wills written by the princess Maria Cantemir (1700-1757) during 1725 and 1757. Using discoursive concepts such as „scene of enunciation”, „discursive scenes” and „discursive ethos”, followed by stylistics devices, our attempt aimed to capture the process of (re)constructing the self. Thus, comparing the two wills with an unedited testamentary letter sample (Romanian manuscript no. 2120 from Romanian Academy Library Bucharest) and to the process of writing and rewriting, our approach delineates how in articulo mortis Maria Cantemir (re)presents herself as „sister princess Maria Cantemirova”.