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Body against soul : gender and sowlehele in Middle English allegory / Masha Raskolnikov.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Raskolnikov, Masha, 1972-
- Series:
- Interventions: new studies in medieval culture
- Interventions : new studies in medieval culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Allegory.
- Body and soul in literature.
- English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 225 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- Thought enfleshed : philosophy and psychology as figured in Latin allegory
- Allegorizing the split self : a Middle English debate between the body and the soul
- "The soul is the prison of the body" : pedagogy, punishment, and self-love in a Middle English debate
- Defending the female self : "Sawles warde" and sowlehele
- Promising the female, delivering the male : transformations of gender in Piers Plowman.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814211021
- 081421102X
- 9780814292006
- 0814292003
- OCLC:
- 311262870
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