Margery Kempe and translations of the flesh /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lochrie, Karma
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1991.
Series:New cultural studies.
Subjects:
Kempe, Margery, > approximately 1373- > Book of Margery Kempe.
Kempe, Margery, > b. ca. 1373. > Book of Margery Kempe.
Margery > Kempe > 1373-1439
Kempe, Margery.
Book of Margery Kempe (Kempe, Margery)
To 1500
Flesh (Theology) in literature.
Women and literature > England > History > To 1500.
Christian women > Religious life > England > History.
Mysticism > England > History > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Christian literature, English (Middle) > History and criticism.
Mysticisme > Angleterre > Histoire > 600-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Littérature chrétienne anglaise (moyen anglais) > Histoire et critique.
RELIGION > Christianity > History.
Christian literature, English (Middle)
Christian women > Religious life.
Mysticism > Middle Ages.
Women and literature.
The Book of Margery Kempe (Kempe)
England.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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