Author: Karma Lochrie
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 081220753X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
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 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.
Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh
Author: Karma Lochrie
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 081220753X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
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 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.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 081220753X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
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 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.
"The Flesh is Frail"
Author: George Gordon Byron Baron Byron
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Category : Poets, English
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Category : Poets, English
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Salopian Shreds and Patches
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Category : Shropshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Category : Shropshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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The treasury of British eloquence, compiled by R. Cochrane
Author: Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer)
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Languages : en
Pages : 558
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Languages : en
Pages : 558
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Our Indifferent Universe
Author: Surazeus Astarius
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359384706
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
"Our Indifferent Universe" presents 903 poems written 2015-2017 by Surazeus that explore what it means to be a human in our indifferent universe.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359384706
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
"Our Indifferent Universe" presents 903 poems written 2015-2017 by Surazeus that explore what it means to be a human in our indifferent universe.
Practical reflections on every verse of the New Testament. The holy Gospels
Author: Henry Thornhill Morgan
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 752
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 752
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Minor Poets of the Caroline Period ...: General introduction. William Chamberlayne: Pharonnida; England's jubilee. Edward Benlowes: Theophila; The summary of wisdom; A poetic descant upon a private music-meeting. Katherine Philips: Poems. Patrick Hannay: Philomela; Sheretine and Mariana; A happy husband; Elegies on the death of our late sovereign Queen Anne, with epitaphs; Songs and sonnets
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 760
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 760
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The Works of John Locke
Author: John Locke
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Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Minor Poets of the Caroline Period ...
Author: George Saintsbury
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 766
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 766
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Practical Reflections on Every Verse of the New Testament: The holy Gospels
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 726
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 726
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