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Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New Cultural StudiesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994Copyright date: ©1992Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (264 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812207538
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Margery Kempe and Translations of the FleshDDC classification:
  • 248.2/2/092
LOC classification:
  • PR2007.K4 -- Z77 1991eb
Online resources:
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.
Summary: "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.
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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.

"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.

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