Uttering the Word

Uttering the WordEmploying contemporary theoretical perspectives, this book provides the first detailed analysis of the language and thought of Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi, an important but neglected Renaissance mystic. Employing contemporary theoretical perspectives, Uttering the Word provides the first detailed analysis of the language and thought of Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi (15661607), an important but neglected Renaissance mystic. Borrowing from Lacan, de Certeau,

" in which the relationship between the two thinkers is approached more from the side of Joyce than Vico

In the second half of the nineteenth century

and Jewish-Christian relations

its impact on reformed politics both at Westminster and in the constituencies

What are the implications of using different methodologies to study the self with different age groups

The volume explores the paradoxes at the core of Beckett’s poetics through the notion of ‘nothing’

and crushing disillusionment

Gender issues explored include Euripides' interest in female experience

and Sartwell's autobiography

The new essays in this volume

essays and texts

and to act