Rhetoricizing Body and Ritual: Women Writing in the Middle Ages

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2010-12

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Sims, Laura

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This thesis applies Victor Turner's ritual theories to the writings of Heloise, Christine de Pizan, Julian of Norwich, and Margery Kempe. I argue that medieval women writers create social dramas within their texts in order to accomplish those ritual transformations which remain unattainable through their personal experiences.

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Heloise, de Pizan, Christine, Book of the City of Ladies, Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love, Kempe, Margery, Turner, Victor, Ritual, Medieval women, Women writers

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Sims, L. (2010). <i>Rhetoricizing body and ritual: Women writing in the Middle Ages</i> (Unpublished thesis). Texas State University-San Marcos, San Marcos, Texas.

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