Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh by Lochrie, Karma
Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh by Lochrie, Karma

Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1999 Karma Lochrie demonstrates that women were...
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Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh by Lochrie, Karma

Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh

$427.37
Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh by Lochrie, Karma

Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh

$427.37
Author: Karma Lochrie
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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.

Author: Karma Lochrie
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 11/01/1994
Pages: 268
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 8.92h x 5.82w x 0.67d
ISBN: 9780812215571

About the Author
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.
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