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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524875603321

Autore

Raskolnikov Masha <1972->

Titolo

Body Against Soul : Gender and Sowlehele in Middle English Allegory / / Masha Raskolnikov

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

0-8142-7150-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 225 p. )

Collana

Interventions : new studies in medieval culture

Disciplina

820.9/15

Soggetti

English literature - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism

Body and soul in literature

Allegory

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references  (p. 207-218) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Thought enfleshed : philosophy and psychology as figured in Latin allegory -- Allegorizing the split self : a Middle English debate between the body and the soul -- "The soul is the prison of the body" : pedagogy, punishment, and self-love in a Middle English debate -- Defending the female self : "Sawles warde" and sowlehele -- Promising the female, delivering the male : transformations of gender in Piers Plowman.