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oapen-20.500.12657-482932021-04-22T17:42:02Z Chapter EIGHT Writing Revelation Saunders, Corinne Margery Kempe; book; gender; genre; holy women bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & 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. 2021-04-22T13:22:14Z 2021-04-22T13:22:14Z 2019 chapter https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/48293 eng application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International Bookshelf_NBK538733.pdf Boydell & Brewer Manuscript and Print in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain 2f51bde7-eaae-4e18-9c1c-ad757a12abea fdea7f6d-0f6a-4520-bc52-2ecd9aa998c9 d859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd Wellcome 20 Cambridge Wellcome Trust Wellcome open access
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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.
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