{"product_id":"encountering-the-book-of-margery-kempe-paperback","title":"Encountering the Book of Margery Kempe - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLaura Kalas\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eLaura Varnam\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis innovative volume harnesses the interdisciplinarity and flexibility of 'encounter' to provide dynamic readings \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBook of Margery Kempe \u003c\/i\u003ein the twenty-first century. Incorporating thirteen original chapters and a critical introduction, it offers myriad exciting approaches to this important and ever-surprising medieval text.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis innovative volume demonstrates the richness and diversity of Margery Kempe studies in the twenty-first century. Through multiple, probing 'encounters', it generates and inspires interdisciplinary, overlapping, supportive, disruptive, and exploratory theoretical and creative approaches to the Book, while serving as an invaluable critical companion. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStructured around four categories of encounter - textual, internal, external, and performative - the volume suggests thematic threads while also revealing how The Book of Margery Kempe resists strict categorisation. The chapters, written by leading scholars in Margery Kempe studies, cover a broad range of approaches, including theories of psychoanalysis, emotion, ecocriticism, autobiography, post-structuralism, and performance. They also adopt diverse methodologies, drawn from the medical humanities, history of science, history of medieval women's literary culture, digital humanities, literary criticism, oral history, the Global Middle Ages, archival discovery, and creative re-imagining. Taken together, these rich, multifarious encounters with the Book capture its remarkable depth and variety. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEncounters are dynamic, but they always require negotiation and reciprocity.Examining how encountering Kempe and her Book is a multi-way process, this volume paves the way for future, critical work.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaura Kalas is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature at Swansea University\u003cbr\u003eLaura Varnam is Lecturer in Old and Middle English Literature at University College, Oxford\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 328\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 11, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42719580782655,"sku":"9781526171580","price":75.82,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/910c31de4889d29e58fcfc05d3489355.webp?v=1765086141","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/encountering-the-book-of-margery-kempe-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}