Question
This woman’s story is interwoven with the author’s relationship with his San Francisco boyfriend “L.” in a novel by the New Narrative writer Robert Glück. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this Christian mystic who visits Julian of Norwich for counsel about her vaguely sexual visions of Jesus in her namesake “Book,” thought to be the earliest English language autobiography.
ANSWER: Margery Kempe
[10h] The preface to Kempe’s Book identifies it as a treatise on one of these entities “set in great pomp and pride of the world.” Throughout the Book, Kempe refers to herself in the third person via this humble designator.
ANSWER: creature [or “this creature”]
[10e] Kempe’s story about a bear who eats fruit from a pear tree and then poops it out resembles a story from this other autobiography, in which Saint Augustine reflects on his sinful act of stealing pears from a tree for no reason.
ANSWER: Confessions [or The Confessions of Saint Augustine; or Confessiones]
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