Lesley Kordecki
Biographic Data
| ID | 5141979 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lesley Kordecki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lesley |
| FAMILY NAME | Kordecki |
| SIGNATURE | KORDECKI L |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Margaret and the Dragon
In the rather strange life of Saint Margaret of Antioch in John Lydgate's fifteenth-century (ca. 1426) Middle English version, The Legend of Seynt Margarete, Margaret is swallowed by the Devil in the form of a dragon, but after she performs the sign of the cross, the creature bursts into pieces, freeing her. Although the pervasive Devil/dragon character in medieval texts may seem too reductively metaphoric for serious monster scholars today, it i…
Ecofeminist Subjectivities
Subversive Voices in Chaucer's House of Fame
It is still better to speak only in riddles, allusions, hints, parables. Even if asked to clarify a few points. Even if people plead that they just don't understand. After all, they never have understood. So why not double the misprision to the limits of exasperation? Until the ear tunes into another music, the voice starts to sing again, the very gaze stops squinting over the signs of auto-representation, and (re)production no longer inevitably …
Let Me “telle yow what I mente”
Let Me “telle yow what I mente”
Let Me “telle yow what I mente”
Let Me “telle yow what I mente”
Subversive Voices in Chaucer's House of Fame
It is still better to speak only in riddles, allusions, hints, parables. Even if asked to clarify a few points. Even if people plead that they just don't understand. After all, they never have understood. So why not double the misprision to the limits of exasperation? Until the ear tunes into another music, the voice starts to sing again, the very gaze stops squinting over the signs of auto-representation, and (re)production no longer inevitably …
Ecofeminist Subjectivities
Margaret and the Dragon
In the rather strange life of Saint Margaret of Antioch in John Lydgate's fifteenth-century (ca. 1426) Middle English version, The Legend of Seynt Margarete, Margaret is swallowed by the Devil in the form of a dragon, but after she performs the sign of the cross, the creature bursts into pieces, freeing her. Although the pervasive Devil/dragon character in medieval texts may seem too reductively metaphoric for serious monster scholars today, it i…
Humanities (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Contemporary Literature and Criticism (1 work) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (1 work) · Gaze (1 work)