LEADER 04281nam 2200793 a 450 001 9910820379903321 005 20240418024505.0 010 $a1-283-89927-2 010 $a0-8122-0753-X 010 $a0-585-21815-3 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812207538 035 $a(CKB)111004368590046 035 $a(OCoLC)835765761 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642155 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000197751 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11177987 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000197751 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10160472 035 $a(PQKB)10228192 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse21418 035 $a(DE-B1597)449538 035 $a(OCoLC)979577068 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812207538 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441820 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642155 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL421177 035 $a(OCoLC)932312623 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441820 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004368590046 100 $a19910711d1991 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMargery Kempe and translations of the flesh /$fby Karma Lochrie 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc1991 215 $a1 online resource (264 p.) 225 0 $aNew Cultural Studies 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-8122-1557-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [237]-248) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. The Body as Text and the Semiotics of Suffering --$t2. The Text as Body and Mystical Discourse --$t3. From Utterance to Text: Authorizing the Mystical Word --$t4. Fissuring the Text: Laughter in the Midst of Writing and Speech --$t5. Embodying the Text: Boisterous Tears and Privileged Readings --$t6. The Disembodied Text --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tBackmatter 330 $aSelected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1999Karma 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. 606 $aChristian literature, English (Middle)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMysticism$zEngland$xHistory$yMiddle Ages, 600-1500 606 $aChristian women$xReligious life$zEngland$xHistory 606 $aWomen and literature$zEngland$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aFlesh (Theology) in literature 610 $aAutobiography. 610 $aBiography. 610 $aLiterature. 610 $aMedieval and Renaissance Studies. 615 0$aChristian literature, English (Middle)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMysticism$xHistory 615 0$aChristian women$xReligious life$xHistory. 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 615 0$aFlesh (Theology) in literature. 676 $a248.2/2/092 676 $aB 700 $aLochrie$b Karma$01593369 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820379903321 996 $aMargery Kempe and translations of the flesh$93973027 997 $aUNINA