Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh.
Title:
Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh.
Author:
Lochrie, Karma.
ISBN:
9780812207538
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (264 pages)
Series:
New Cultural Studies
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Body as Text and the Semiotics of Suffering -- 2. The Text as Body and Mystical Discourse -- 3. From Utterance to Text: Authorizing the Mystical Word -- 4. Fissuring the Text: Laughter in the Midst of Writing and Speech -- 5. Embodying the Test: Boisterous Tears and Privileged Readings -- 6. The Disembodied Text -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
"A feminist analysis of the writing of the fifteenth-century English mystic, showing how Kempe exploited the gendered ideologies of flesh and text, violated taboos, and responded to the constraints of her time."-Book News, Inc.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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