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SGGK overview

SGGK overview. Complex Structure Romance Genre concerned with Knightly Identity. SGGK Overview. Identity Honor Masculinity Sexuality. SGGK Overview. Poem explores Knightly Character The nature of Chivalry. SGGK Overview. Strong Christian component in the text.

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SGGK overview

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  1. SGGK overview • Complex Structure • Romance • Genre concerned with Knightly Identity

  2. SGGK Overview • Identity • Honor • Masculinity • Sexuality

  3. SGGK Overview • Poem explores Knightly Character The nature of Chivalry

  4. SGGK Overview • Strong Christian component in the text

  5. The Book of Margery Kempe • Important Terms • Litteratus—amanuensis • Mysticism • Imitatio Christi

  6. Mysticism • “an immediate knowledge of God attained in this present life through personal religious experience. It is primarily a state of prayer, and as such admits of various degrees from short and rare divine ‘touches’ to a practically permanent union with God” • Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church

  7. Book of Margery Kempe • Genre • Autobiography • Hagiography • Spiritual autobiography • Can we consider this autohagiography?

  8. Kempe • Defying Categories • Options for women • Kempe’s marriage and secular life • Life with her husband – youth and age • Book 1.11 • Book 1.76

  9. Kempe • Mystical experiences • 1.1 • 1.79 • Mysticism and eroticism

  10. Pilgrimage • Jerusalem, heavenly and earthly 1.28 • Bodily eye/spiritual eye • Affective piety • Changes in representations of Christ

  11. Early medieval

  12. Kempe’s reaction to a Pietà • Weeping—Affective piety • Book 1.28 • The Compassion of Mary 1.79 (p. 397)

  13. Vision of the Passion • Meditations on the Life of Christ • Kempe comforts the Virgin Mary 1.79 • Visions of torture • Connections to Anti-Semitism

  14. York Play • Context in medieval drama • Mystery cycles • Passion plays • Corpus Christi plays • Communal forms, connections to liturgy

  15. York Play • Urban form • Community based • Chester, York, N-Town, Towneley

  16. Medieval Drama • Non-professional • Cross-dressing • Early Records (REED) • Pageant Wagons • Feast of Corpus Christi

  17. The York Play • Crucifixion is one part of a sequence describing suffering • The banality of evil l. 229 • The role of the spectator • L. 253

  18. York Play • Anachronism • Mahound (line 61)

  19. Controversy over Passion Plays

  20. Two linguistic and literary historical periods Old English—Anglo-Saxon Middle English Medieval Section Overview

  21. Beowulf • Nature of the hero • Structure of the poem • Relation to issues of gender

  22. Canterbury Tales • Estates Satire • Miller’s Tale—Fabliau—Quitting • Wife of Bath—Anti-feminist Satire • Pardoner— • Spiritual and physical ambiguity

  23. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight • Text Structured through parallels • The façade of courtly culture • Testing of Knightly Identity

  24. Kempe • Auto-hagiography Affective piety

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