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Margery Kempe And Translations Of The Flesh

[Paperback]

by Karma Lochrie

    • Author

      Karma Lochrie

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      University Of Pennsylvania Press

    • Published

      November 1994

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      Margery Kempe And Translations Of The Flesh

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      Karma Lochrie demonstrates that women were associated not with the body but rather with the flesh, that disruptive aspect of body and soul which Augustine claimed was fissured with the Fall of Man. It is within this framework that she reads "The Book of Margery Kempe", demonstrating the ways in which Kempe exploited the gendered ideologies of flesh and text through her controversial practices of writing, her inappropriate-seeming laughter, and the most notorious aspect of her mysticism, her "hysterical" weeping expressions of religious desire. Lochrie 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.In her work and her life, Kempe consistently crossed the barriers of those cultural taboos designed to exclude and silence her. 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."Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh" will be of interest to students and scholars of medieval studies, intellectual history, and feminist theory.

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      • Author

        Karma Lochrie

      • Book Format

        Paperback

      • Publisher

        University Of Pennsylvania Press

      • Published

        November 1994

      • Edition

        New edition

      • Weight

        423g

      • Page Count

        264

      • Dimensions

        148 x 227 x 18 mm

      • ISBN

        9780812215571

      • ISBN-10

        0812215575

      • Eden Code

        1010527

      More Information

      • Author/Creator: Karma Lochrie

      • ISBN: 9780812215571

      • Publisher: University Of Pennsylvania Press

      • Release Date: November 1994

      • Weight: 423g

      • Dimensions: 148 x 227 x 18 mm

      • Eden Code: 1010527


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