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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
1991.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.