Margery Kempe`s Dissenting Fictions
Autor Lynn Staleyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 sep 1994
Each of the book s four chapters considers a key aspect of Kempe s fiction: her manipulation of the tropes of authorship; her exploitation of the conventions of sacred biography; her use of the language of gender as a means of exploring the issue of spiritual authority; and her handling of such important contemporary issues as vernacular translation and nationalism. The conclusion addresses the issue of community that is radically opposed to contemporary views of the English body politic.
In situating Kempe in relation to contemporary texts and to contemporary issues, such as Lollardy, Lynn Staley provides a radically new way of looking at Kempe herself as an author who was fully aware of the types of constrictions she faced as a woman writer. As the study demonstrates, in Kempe we have the first major prose fiction writer of the Middle Ages. Her Book is a tribute to her keen understanding of conventional forms and modes and thus to her ability to reshape traditional materials. It is also a tribute to her understanding of the ways in which she might exploit the conventions and values of a patriarchal society to her own ends. Rather than Margery, the hysteric, Staley insists on Kempe, the controlling author, who, like Chaucer and Langland, creates a fiction that dramatizes the weaknesses of the social and ecclesiastical institutions of her day."
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780271025797
ISBN-10: 0271025794
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Penn State University
ISBN-10: 0271025794
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Penn State University