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- catalog abstract ""This is the first full-length feminist treatment of Margery Kempe, the extraordinary and troubling fifteenth-century writer, pilgrim, and mystic." "Beginning with a theory of the body in medieval theology, 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Project Muse UPCC books net".
- catalog contributor b3483934.
- catalog created "c1991.".
- catalog date "1991".
- catalog date "c1991.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1991.".
- catalog description ""This is the first full-length feminist treatment of Margery Kempe, the extraordinary and troubling fifteenth-century writer, pilgrim, and mystic." "Beginning with a theory of the body in medieval theology, 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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-248) and index.".
- catalog description "The body as text and the semiotics of suffering -- The text as body and mystical discourse -- From utterance to text: authorizing the mystical word -- Fissuring the text: laughter in the midst of writing and speech -- Embodying the text: boisterous tears and privileged readings -- The disembodied text.".
- catalog extent "viii, 253 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0812231074 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "New cultural studies series".
- catalog issued "1991".
- catalog issued "c1991.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,".
- catalog spatial "England".
- catalog subject "248.2/2/092 B 20".
- catalog subject "Christian literature, English (Middle) History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Christian women Religious life England History.".
- catalog subject "Flesh (Theology) in literature.".
- catalog subject "Kempe, Margery, approximately 1373- Book of Margery Kempe.".
- catalog subject "Mysticism England History Middle Ages, 600-1500.".
- catalog subject "PR2007.K4 Z77 1991".
- catalog subject "Women and literature England History To 1500.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The body as text and the semiotics of suffering -- The text as body and mystical discourse -- From utterance to text: authorizing the mystical word -- Fissuring the text: laughter in the midst of writing and speech -- Embodying the text: boisterous tears and privileged readings -- The disembodied text.".
- catalog title "Margery Kempe and translations of the flesh / by Karma Lochrie.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".