Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh

by Karma Lochrie

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0812215575

ISBN13:9780812215571

Release Date:November 1994

Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press

Length:268 Pages

Weight:0.94 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.8" x 8.9"

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