Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays

ISBN-13: 9780367209773 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 274 str.

Sandra J. McEntire

Opis

Originally published in 1992, Margery Kempe looks at Margery Kempe, and her book The Book of Margery Kempe. Original essays in the book examines Kempe's spirituality, cultural context, and the autobiography itself.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Sandra J. McEntire