Uttering the Word: The Mystical Performances of Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi, a Renaissance VisionaryState University of New York Press, 1998 M09 17 - 201 pages Employing contemporary theoretical perspectives, Uttering the Word provides the first detailed analysis of the language and thought of Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi (1566–1607), an important but neglected Renaissance mystic. Borrowing from Lacan, de Certeau, and Deleuze, Maggi analyzes de' Pazzi's unique mystical discourse and studies how the Florentine visionary interprets the relationship between orality and writing, authorship and audience, sexual identity and language. |
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... ( St Mary of the Angels ) transcribed , corrected , edited , and in some cases censored her monologues . As soon as the mystic entered a rapture , the nuns took pen and paper and jotted down as much as they could 1 Introduction.
... ( St Mary of the Angels ) transcribed , corrected , edited , and in some cases censored her monologues . As soon as the mystic entered a rapture , the nuns took pen and paper and jotted down as much as they could 1 Introduction.
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... destroys them . The mystic both causes and annihilates the written text . We might go so far as to say that , when she speaks , Maria Maddalena erases her own text . The nuns try to explain the saint's act by saying that she 2 INTRODUCTION.
... destroys them . The mystic both causes and annihilates the written text . We might go so far as to say that , when she speaks , Maria Maddalena erases her own text . The nuns try to explain the saint's act by saying that she 2 INTRODUCTION.
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... nuns do not understand why Maria Maddalena had such a violent reaction to their manuscripts . It may very well be that by burning her sisters ' notebooks Maria Maddalena tells us how she interprets her own visions and the nuns ...
... nuns do not understand why Maria Maddalena had such a violent reaction to their manuscripts . It may very well be that by burning her sisters ' notebooks Maria Maddalena tells us how she interprets her own visions and the nuns ...
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Contents
Orality and Time in I colloqui | 17 |
Maria Maddalena the Word and the Language | 37 |
The Wedding the Funeral the Memorial | 73 |
The Language of Satan | 119 |
Love Is a Word | 139 |
Notes | 163 |
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Common terms and phrases
absence actually angels articulate asked belch biblical birds blessed soul blood Catena Catherine of Siena Certeau colloquio 48 convent corpse creature crucial dalena devil diegetic divine exclamations expression fact Father Father's bosom Forty Days gestures God's hagiographic holy human incarnate interlocutor interpretation Italian kiss Lacan language linguistic Louis Marin love's Maria Mad Maria Maddalena Maria Maddalena says Maria Maddalena's discourse Maria Maddalena's visions means meditation Meister Eckhart memory Michel de Certeau monologues mouth mystic's body mystic's discourse mystic's performance mythèmes narration narrative novice nuns objet petit oh good Jesus Oh Word orality pain passage passion Pazzi perceive Peter Chrysologus physical present Probation pronounced rapture remember reminds rhetoric ring saint Santa Maria Savior's scriptorium sermon signified silence Simone Weil sisters speak St Augustine St Catherine suffering tion trans transcribers transcriptions underscores utterances Verbum voice wedding whereas Word's Word's death Word's soul write