Maggie S. Kelly

There are 2 included publications by Maggie S. Kelly :

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Blood cries out : negotiating embodiment and otherness in the premodern world 2023 295 My dissertation focuses on medieval and early modern literary uses of blood symbolism to describe and represent these marginalized groups: Christ, women, Jews, and disabled persons. My key argument is that blood is the nexus at which competing rhetor...
Mourning through murder: the role of psychic mimesis in early modern revenge tragedies AND Shut your trap: hunting metaphors and verbal violence in Twelfth Night 2018 560 Numerous early modern revenge tragedies illustrate the protagonist's quest to memorialize a loved one who has been murdered. Although revenge tragedy has not always been thought of as serving this memorializing function, this essay will seek to expla...