Literary text as a demonstration of feminist criticism: the case of Piers Plowman

The passage in the Passus XVIII of the Schmidt edition of the Piers Plowman B-Text where the Four Daughters of God meet and exchange views on the even ts of Easter seems to me to enact some aspects of Kristeva's notion of the chora as well as providing site for exploring elements of Butler's ideas of gender and sex. The physical movement followed,ed by the four sisters and the movement of the text not ly renders it open to feminist analysis, but a lso, I believe, makes the theories of Kristeva and Butler more accessible. Throughout this reading I fake advantage of the allegorical nature of the p oem to allow to the terms 'male' and 'female' to be freed from specific ess entialist associations and instead become markers of stability/fixity and f lux/fluidity respectively.