Horrific Visions of the Host: A Meditation on Genre

Abstract

This essay examines Cleanness alongside the Play of the Sacrament, to show how two disparate works can productively be studied together by thinking of genre as a formal leveraging of consonant cognitive and affective states. Specifically, by thinking of genre in this way, the essay argues that these works are “horror” narratives of Host desecration and that they share an interest in how to make their horrific stories participatory for an audience, as well as in how that participation relates to community-level participation in Christian ritual.

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