ENGL 406 Lecture Notes - Sir Orfeo, Margery Kempe, Laity
5 Sep 2013
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Exam is 2 hrs. only: don"t spend longer than 25 mins on your translation. Possible texts for each questions and possible approaches to the questions. Book of duchess dreamer unable to grasp the idea of text: to what extent do u have to distance yourself from the text, used the dreamer to create distance. Because it"s a dream, we can examine the depth of the man"s sorrow over the loss of his wife. Kempe: using scribe to distance herself away from the text; same effect as using a dreamer, using scribe creates a sense of authority. By sleeping, the voice of his wife is taken away. She goes with the ideas of the patriarchy society. Dream allows author to comment on society without attracting criticism and accusations of being against the hierarchal system of society: dream was seen as symbolic not realistic and therefore had more liberties.
