The Prioress: A Legend of Spirit, a Life of Flesh

Description: Despite the crossed purposes of the Prioress's secular and religious impulses, each impulse paradoxically reaches fruition in PrT. In creating the young boy as an innocent so like herself and then describing his martyrdom with the particular physical details she chooses, she attains the fullest possible visceral consummation toward which her secular impulses lead her.; In placing the boy among the undefiled of Revelation, she attains the virginal apotheosis toward which her religious calling summons her.