Theater of the word : selfhood in the English morality play / Julie Paulson.
2019
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Title
Theater of the word : selfhood in the English morality play / Julie Paulson.
Published
Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2019]
Copyright
©2019
Description
x, 229 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Associated name
Series statement
ReFormations : medieval and early modern
Summary
"Paulson highlights a paradox of scholarship on medieval concepts of the self: The concept of an 'interior' self that is to some extent hidden from an 'external' world is uniquely modern, and hence alien to the medieval period; nevertheless, studies of the medieval idea of the self still privilege this modern binary in the language they use. What is needed, Paulson argues, is a new way of speaking about the medieval self that does not privilege anachronistic terms and concepts. To provide this, Paulson turns to the medieval morality plays--performances which depict selves being created through performative acts--to construct a more appropriate form of discourse"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-218) and index.
Contents
The castle of perseverance and penitential platea
A theater of the soul's interior : contemplative literature and penitential education in wisdom
Speaking for mankind
Everyman and community
A new theater of the word : the morality play and the English Reformation
Conclusion : morality drama inside out.
A theater of the soul's interior : contemplative literature and penitential education in wisdom
Speaking for mankind
Everyman and community
A new theater of the word : the morality play and the English Reformation
Conclusion : morality drama inside out.
Series
Reformations.
Item Details
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PR635.S38 P38 2019