Approaches to Teaching Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and the Shorter PoemsTison Pugh, Angela Jane Weisl Modern Language Association of America, 2007 - 217 Seiten This Approaches to Teaching volume aims to provide students with a vision of Chaucer that highlights the great variety, breadth, and depth of his entire body of work. Although Chaucerians recognize that Troilus and Criseyde and the shorter poems are as entertaining and complex as the more familiar Canterbury Tales, teachers of medieval English do not readily include these texts in their courses. The materials collected here offer instructors ideas and strategies for making Chaucer's lesser-taught works as memorable and engrossing for students as any of the narrative gems in Canterbury Tales. Part 1, "Materials," discusses available teaching resources, focusing not only on the many editions of Chaucer's works in Middle English but also on translations for teachers whose students turn to modern English as a study aid. The essays in part 2, "Approaches," begin by exploring the poetry's backgrounds, including sources and genre; the growth of the English vernacular as a literary language; Chaucer's conception of history in its Christian, classical, and English political senses; the role of manuscript study in illuminating the historical record; and Chaucer's representation of gender. The section on teaching the poems features essays that offer suggestions for overcoming students' difficulties with Middle English, consider the relation between Chaucer and his readers, assess various theoretical models, and show how a wide range of visual imagery can be used in the classroom. A final section on course contexts includes essays on teaching these poems for the first time, as well as designing classes for nonmajors and graduate students. The volume concludes with an appendix on reading Chaucer aloud with students. |
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... desire becomes more unsettling than even literal erotic acts . My broader pur- poses are to suggest that , since literary tradition is made up of acts of appro- priation , intertextual comparisons have interpretative consequences and to ...
... desire becomes more unsettling than even literal erotic acts . My broader pur- poses are to suggest that , since literary tradition is made up of acts of appro- priation , intertextual comparisons have interpretative consequences and to ...
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Tison Pugh, Angela Jane Weisl. spontaneous birth of desire , I invite my students to gloss her words . The class may end up debating whether Criseyde in fact owns her desire , since her exclamation , although different from the cautious ...
Tison Pugh, Angela Jane Weisl. spontaneous birth of desire , I invite my students to gloss her words . The class may end up debating whether Criseyde in fact owns her desire , since her exclamation , although different from the cautious ...
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... desire for primary and pure presence as opposed to discursive or tex- tual ( and thus temporal ) mediation , was supposed to be the tear stains . In the Platonic system , thought and feeling precede and are superior to speech , which is ...
... desire for primary and pure presence as opposed to discursive or tex- tual ( and thus temporal ) mediation , was supposed to be the tear stains . In the Platonic system , thought and feeling precede and are superior to speech , which is ...
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Editions | 3 |
Aids to Teaching | 9 |
A Survey of Pedagogical Approaches to Troilus | 23 |
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