Margery Kempe's Dissenting Fictions
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Margery Kempe's Dissenting Fictions , a contextual and historical study of the Book , focuses on Kempe's ability to construct a fiction that exploits the conventions of sacred biography and devotional prose as the means of scrutinizing the very foundations of fifteenth-century English society. Thus, though the Book is cast into a communally sanctioned "female" form, Kempe uses the very conventions that tended to define that form to test its outer...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0271010312
ISBN13:9780271010311
Release Date:September 1994
Publisher:Penn State University Press
Length:240 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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