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[me_ves_y_sufres]

This goes out to all the medievalists on my flist: can you recommend any good books that combine study of medieval literature/society with queer theory or readings? I've got Dinshaw, Pugh and Burgwinkle (BURGWINKLE what a name) on stack request. Alternatively-- and I realise this is really hazy, but at the moment I am just randomly googling search

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[lollardy]

This post is so not meant for me, and I have never even read what I am recommending and so it probably doesn't fit what you're asking for, and my sentence structure alone should make it clear that no one should pay heed to any english-related advice I give, but 'Mrs Thatcher's Pearl' by John Kerrigan (I think it's in The Body and the Soul in Medieval Literature eds Torti and Boitani. Sounds like that kind of thing everyone except me would have read already, come to think of it) always sounded a bit interesting to me, but evidently not enough to have actually read it. THE END.

[lollardy]

Also, did you not totally man up to it a bit already by writing a 6000 WORD ESSAY ON PIERS PLOWMAN? If anyone can do this, IT'S YOU.

[me_ves_y_sufres]

I JUST WENT AND READ MRS THATCHER'S PEARL IT'S AMAZING. I wish I'd read it before my optional thesis. Or my Piers Plowman work. It really makes me want to read the original poem.

[liminereid]

Read Pearl, it's beautiful and one of my favourites.

[me_ves_y_sufres]

I like Pearl! It's really good. That's my awesome, technical, aesthetic judgement. I meant I need to read the original poem the article Mrs Thatcher's Pearl is written about which is this 1980s neo-medieval dream vision called The Infant and the Pearl by Douglas Oliver, which is all about Thatcher and his dead son and based on the original Pearl (it sounds like you'd like it too if you don't know it already).

[liminereid]

Ah that sounds pretty cool too. I'm glad you like Pearl. That and Dream of the Rood are among my favourite religious poems.

[lollardy]

I WILL OBVIOUSLY HAVE TO DO THE SAME VERY SOON. Yes, Pearl is super duper. Although when I read about it I always think about how interesting and amazing it is, and forget how it's bloody difficult to read.