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King, Laura Severt.

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Sacred eroticism, rapturous anguish: Christianity's penitent prostitutes and the vexation of allegory, 1370-1608.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Sacred eroticism, rapturous anguish: Christianity's penitent prostitutes and the vexation of allegory, 1370-1608./
Author:	King, Laura Severt.
Description:	248 p.
Notes:	Co-Chairs: Anne Middleton; Stephen Greenblatt.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International54-10A.
Subject:	Literature, English. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9408032

Sacred eroticism, rapturous anguish: Christianity's penitent prostitutes and the vexation of allegory, 1370-1608.
King, Laura Severt.

Sacred eroticism, rapturous anguish: Christianity's penitent prostitutes and the vexation of allegory, 1370-1608. - 248 p.

Co-Chairs: Anne Middleton; Stephen Greenblatt.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 1993.

The dissertation considers some literary problems and opportunities posed by hagiography's few prodigal daughters, primarily Mary Magdalene. Late medieval vitae of these saints, like some works authored by women, render sacred eroticism in surprisingly concrete ways, not because of exegetical ignorance but because such literalism accords femininity spiritual advantages. These experiments provoked bitter controversy, both subtle and overt, to which poetry and drama respond.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017709
Literature, English.

Sacred eroticism, rapturous anguish: Christianity's penitent prostitutes and the vexation of allegory, 1370-1608.
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500 $a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-10, Section: A, page: 3757.
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520 $a The dissertation considers some literary problems and opportunities posed by hagiography's few prodigal daughters, primarily Mary Magdalene. Late medieval vitae of these saints, like some works authored by women, render sacred eroticism in surprisingly concrete ways, not because of exegetical ignorance but because such literalism accords femininity spiritual advantages. These experiments provoked bitter controversy, both subtle and overt, to which poetry and drama respond.
520 $a The dissertation is structured around two works on the margins of orthodoxy, the Homelia de Maria Magdalena and the Digby play Mary Magdalene. In these works, I find the following: (1) The Magdalene offers an intensely physical, intensely female self up to men's imaginative occupation--a self that, when occupied, authorizes radical criticism extending even to Christ. (2) She reclaims the letter of the Song of Songs, revealing and contesting the near-effacement of female desire by the poem's exegetes. (3) Despite her status as the first and foremost exemplar of conversion, Mary's sensual youth and saintly maturity are remarkably continuous, blurring the distinction between carnal and divine love and giving the former coercive potential. These bold claims may have recommended the homily and the Digby play to Chaucer and Shakespeare, respectively, and the bulk of the dissertation looks at their responses.
520 $a Chaucer claims to have translated De Maria Magdalena, and a number of his poems betray subtle debts to the daring homily. In The Book of the Duchess, for example, he evokes it to critique the verbal apotheosis of Blanche, while in the Legend of Good Women, he evokes it to sketch the doomed possibility of a textuality not opposed to experience. The "Complaint unto Pity" and the "Shipman's Tale" also recall the homily, to more pointedly political ends.
520 $a Shakespeare seems dismayed by the bitter contention that erupted around the Magdalene in the wake of Lefevre d'Etaples's attack in 1518--but that is forecast by a bitter revision of the De Maria Magdalena in the previous century. His Antony and Cleopatra and Pericles, registered with the Stationers on the same day, betray muted but extensive concern with the dismantling of the medieval legend, with what is lost to culture and literature when harlot and saint are divorced.
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