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Body Against Soul: Gender and "Sowlehele" in Middle English Allegory

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In medieval allegory, Body and Soul were often pitted against one another in debate. In 'Body Against Soul: Gender and 'Sowlehele' in Middle English Allegory', Masha Raskolnikov argues that such debates function as a mode of thinking about psychology, gender, and power in the Middle Ages. Neither theological nor medical in nature, works of sowlehele ('soul-heal') described the self to itself in everyday language—moderns might call this kind of writing 'self-help'. Bringing together contemporary feminist and queer theory along with medieval psychological thought, 'Body Against Soul' examines 'Piers Plowman', the Katherine Group', and the history of psychological allegory and debate. In so doing, it rewrites the history of the Body to include its recently neglectedfellow, the Soul.
Request Code : ZLIBIO3766589
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Year:
2009
Publisher:
The Ohio State University Press
Language:
English
Pages:
240
ISBN 10:
081421102X
ISBN 13:
9780814211021
ISBN:
081421102X,9780814211021
Series:
Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture

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