Chapter EIGHT Writing Revelation

This essay addresses intersections of gender and genre by exploring the complex ways in which the Book of Margery Kempe draws on other devotional texts, particularly those of Hilton and Rolle, on the lives of holy women, and on Kempe's own social and cultural contexts, in order to shape a unique typ...

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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-680442025-01-12T12:31:55Z Chapter EIGHT Writing Revelation Saunders, Corinne Margery Kempe; book; gender; genre; holy women thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies This essay addresses intersections of gender and genre by exploring the complex ways in which the Book of Margery Kempe draws on other devotional texts, particularly those of Hilton and Rolle, on the lives of holy women, and on Kempe's own social and cultural contexts, in order to shape a unique type of life-writing. Attention is paid to the multi-modal sensory quality of Kempe's visionary experience, and to the privileging of voice across the book. Topics addressed include the ways in which affective and cognitive combine in Kempe's experience, the difficulty of placing inner experience, the paradoxes inherent in attempting to express the ineffable, and the radical quality of her attempt to write an inner life. 2021-04-23T02:00:18Z 2021-04-23T02:00:18Z 2021-04-22T13:22:14Z 2019 chapter https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/48293 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/68044 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/48293/1/Bookshelf_NBK538733.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/48293/1/Bookshelf_NBK538733.pdf Boydell & Brewer 7b5beb75-2e34-4246-8da6-875fc8894f70 Manuscript and Print in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain Wellcome Trust d859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd Wellcome 20 Cambridge open access
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