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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Kempe, Margery"”.
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Objects and anxiety in late medieval English writing
… forming belief. Chapters Three and Four discuss Margery Kempe's worldly and religious attire. I argue that Margery's clothes and tears become a form of livery that reinforces her relationship with the Heavenly household. As a result, her text itself is actually a narrative of cloth, in which she …
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Queering Medieval Gender and Sexuality: Pre- and Postmodern Representations of Virginity
… as well as texts such as Robert Glück's 1994 Margery Kempe that defy categorization. Using queer theory, especially Judith Butler's theory of the performativity of gender, and Julia Kristeva's theory of the abject, this project reveals the dynamic nature of virginity and gender as signifiers …
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Telling tales out of school : schoolbooks, audiences, and the production of vernacular literature in late medieval England
… Chapter 3 offers a reexamination of The Book of Margery Kempe that argues against Kempe’s presumed illiteracy and demonstrates how she utilizes classroom teachings on self presentation in both her lived experience and the writing of her Book to manipulate her reception by her contemporaries and …
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The Literary Lives of Intention in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century England
… The Testimony of William Thorpe, and The Book of Margery Kempe;. These texts employed contemporary notions of intention to represent interiority and to establish morally coherent narratives. Late fourteenth- and early fifteenth-century writers, however, not only draw on contemporary discussions of …
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Rhetoricizing Body and Ritual: Women Writing in the Middle Ages
… Christine de Pizan, Julian of Norwich, and Margery Kempe. I argue that medieval women writers create social dramas within their texts in order to accomplish those ritual transformations which remain unattainable through their personal experiences.