Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh (New Cultural Studies) - Hardcover

Lochrie, Karma

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0812231074 ISBN 13: 9780812231076

Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992

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Reseña del editor:

This feminist study demonstrates the ways in which the 15th-century writer, pilgrim and mystic Margery Kempe exploited the gendered ideologies of flesh and text through her controversial practices of writing. It challenges prevailing scholarly assumptions of Kempe's illiteracy, her role in the writing of her book, her misunderstanding of mystical concepts, and the failure of her book to influence a reading community. Instead of viewing Kempe as marginal to the great mystical and literary traditions of the late Middle Ages, this study takes her seriously as a woman responding to the cultural constraints and exclusions of her time.

Biografía del autor:

Karma Lochrie is Assistant Professor of English at Loyola University of Chicago.

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• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0812231074
• ISBN 13: 9780812231076
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 268