Margery Kempe

A Book of Essays
Herausgeber: McEntire, Sandra J.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1992, Margery Kempe looks at one of the most appealing mystics and pilgrims of 15th-century England. The book looks at Margery Kempe, and her book The Book of Margery Kempe, thought to be the first vernacular autobiography in medieval Britain. Original essays in the book examines Kempe's spirituality, cultural context, and the autobiography itself, The Book of Margery Kempe. The essays in the book represent detail literary analysis on Kempe and the critical history of her words.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 356g
• ISBN-13: 9780367209773
• ISBN-10: 0367209772
• Artikelnr.: 69891423

Autorenporträt

Sandra J. McEntire

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: The Woman 1 Margery Kempe and Her
Calling 2. "Understanding by Feeling" in Margery Kempe's Book 3. Margery
Kempe's Tears and the Power Over Language 4. The Journey into Selfhood:
Margery Kempe and Feminine Spirituality Part II: Her Work 5. From Woe to
Weal and Weal to Woe: Notes on the Structure of The Book of Margery Kempe
6. Voice, Authority, and Blasphemy in The Book of Margery Kempe 7. Margery
Kempe and the Critics: Disempowerment and Deconstruction Part III: Her
World 8. Margery Kempe and Kings Lynn 9. Margery Kempe, St Bridget, and
Marguerite d'Oingt: The Visionary Writer as Shaman 10. Margery Kempe and
the King's Daughter of Hungary 11. Bridge, Margery, Julian, and Alice:
Bridget of Sweden's Textual Community in Medieval England 12. Margery and
Alison: Women on Top List of References Cited Index