ENGLISH 4270/5250 SUMMER 2018 THURSDAY ESSAY SUMMARIES SCHEDULE

Please produce a written precis of the assigned essay, following this template. Maximum length: two single-spaced pages.

• Author & title of Article:
• Summarize the argument of the essay in a (possibly compound-complex) sentence.
• Summarize the argument of the essay in a paragraph or two.
• What is the article’s best or most convincing use of evidence (and what kind of evidence is used)?
• How does the opening paragraph or two serve to attract the interest of the reader?

TH MAY 24

Bynum, “Material Continuity, Personal Survival, and the Resurrection of the Body”

· Kelly O’Connor

· Matt Griner

· Sean Murphy

TH MAY 31

Žižek, “Courtly Love, or, Woman as Thing”

· Jimmy Simpson

· Katie Leach

· Laura Dobbs Terry

TH JUNE 7

Fisher, “Leaving Morgan Aside: Women, History and Revisionism in SGGK”

· Jordan Hunt

· Kara Manley

· Marceline Witengier

Heng, “Feminine Knots and the Other Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”

· Maggie Doyle Ervin

· Stephanie Lake

· Julie Harms

TH JUNE 14

Holsinger, “Thorkel Farserk Goes for a Swim: Climate Change, the Medieval Optimum, and the Perils of Amateurism”

· Katie Leach

· Jordan Hunt

· Victoria Sobeck

TH JUNE 21

TH JUN 28

Dinshaw, “Getting Medieval: Pulp Fiction, Gawain, Foucault”

· Kara Manley

· Matt Griner

· Jimmy Simpson

T JUL 3

Movie Medievalism essays (TBD)

· Stephanie Lake

· Maggie Doyle Ervin

· Dylan Bowles

TH JULY 5

Essays on A Knight’sTale (TBD)

· Kelly O’Connor

· Laura Dobbs Terry

· Jamie Givens