Author Archives: Clifton McCallum

Title: Food and the Construction and Maintenance of Identity in “Sir Cleges” I want to explore how identities are constructed and maintained around food in “Sir Cleges”. Because this poem is about gain and loss through the gift of food, … Continue reading →

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12847529 I thought this was funny!

Clifton McCallum ENGL400 Dr. Seaman 05 April 2011 http://blogs.cofc.edu/seamanm-eng400/files/2011/01/McDonald-A-Polemical-Intro.pdf In Nicola McDonald’s introduction to Pulp Fictions of Medieval England, she argues for a renaissance of medieval romance scholarship, drawing parallels between Romance conventions and contemporary popular fiction. McDonald traces how … Continue reading →

Hey guys! The past few years have been a learning experience. Oh gosh, listen to me. I sound like I’m writing in a yearbook or something. I guess what I am getting at is that this is going to be … Continue reading →

In poem 23, the obvious Christian themes such as forgiveness, grace, salvation, and even sacrifice are present, but also the prodigal son convention manifests itself as a “gender bender” in The Incestuous Daughter. The prodigal son form as demonstrated in … Continue reading →

The predictable plots of most Romances are written to fit a form—the Romantic form. If most of the content is predictable, then I guess the question is what drives the audience interest? In Christine Chism’s “Romance”, she highlights several key … Continue reading →

After reading poems twelve and thirteen, I noticed parallels between the content and subject matter of the Lord’s Prayer, which is commonly referred to as the “Our Father”, and I became curious as to why the prayers were so formal. … Continue reading →

As we discussed Truelove and Radulescu’s chapter on medieval literacy and what that meant, we talked about technology, namely the Internet, and its nature of open source information in relation to the way manuscript culture inextricably altered the medieval period.  … Continue reading →

Marshal McLuhan prophesied a future where television would assume a pedagogical role, teaching its viewers about real-world issues.  Richard Firth Green references McLuhan in the second chapter of Medieval English Literature: 1100-1500, while defining for readers the difference between textual … Continue reading →

Living in a society that is now ubiquitous with post-enlightenment thought, which has ranked progress as priority number one, creates a lens of superiority through which we view the past. For example, the “advancements” in agriculture that has turned organic … Continue reading →