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Article: Hilaire Kallendorf. Exorcism and Its Texts: Subjectivity in Early Modern Literature of England and Spain.(Reseña de libro)
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- Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America
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- September 22, 2004
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Hilaire Kallendorf. Exorcista and Its Texts: Subjectivity in Early Modern Literature of England and Spain. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2003. xix + 327 pp. ISBN: 0-8020-8817-1.
In medieval belief, there were many ways a demon could enter the body, sometimes via so seemingly innocuous a vehicle as an unblessed lettuce leaf eaten by a careless nun. In a world of such perils, when the body and mind--and thus the very integrity of the individual--were so at risk of preemption by demonic powers, it is little wonder that mechanisms for expelling those powers achieved a high degree of importance. Of these perils and these mechanisms we learn much from Hilaire Kallendorf's ...