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Margery Kempe and translations of the flesh /

"This is the first full-length feminist treatment of Margery Kempe, the extraordinary and troubling fifteenth-century writer, pilgrim, and mystic." "Beginning with a theory of the body in medieval theology, Karma Lochrie demonstrates that women were associated not with the body but ra...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lochrie, Karma
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1991.
Colección:New cultural studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.