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Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh

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Description for Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh Paperback. "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. Series: New Cultural Studies. Num Pages: 268 pages, 4 illus. BIC Classification: HRCS1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 404.

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1999

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 ... Read more

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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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
Series
New Cultural Studies
Number of Pages
268
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812215571
SKU
V9780812215571
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Ref
99-1

About Karma Lochrie
Karma Lochrie is Ruth Halls Professor of English at Indiana University. She is the author of Covert Operations: The Medieval Uses of Secrecy, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Reviews for Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh
"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.

Goodreads reviews for Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh


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