Approaches to Teaching Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Title | Approaches to Teaching Chaucer's Canterbury Tales PDF eBook |
Author | Frank Grady |
Publisher | Modern Language Association |
Pages | 251 |
Release | 2014-05-01 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1603291954 |
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales was the subject of the first volume in the Approaches to Teaching series, published in 1980. But in the past thirty years, Chaucer scholarship has evolved dramatically, teaching styles have changed, and new technologies have created extraordinary opportunities for studying Chaucer. This second edition of Approaches to Teaching Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales reflects the wide variety of contexts in which students encounter the poem and the diversity of perspectives and methods instructors bring to it. Perennial topics such as class, medieval marriage, genre, and tale order rub shoulders with considerations of violence, postcoloniality, masculinities, race, and food in the tales. The first section, “Materials,†reviews available editions, scholarship, and audiovisual and electronic resources for studying The Canterbury Tales. In the second section, “Approaches,†thirty-six essays discuss strategies for teaching Chaucer’s language, for introducing theory in the classroom, for focusing on individual tales, and for using digital resources in the classroom. The multiplicity of approaches reflects the richness of Chaucer’s work and the continuing excitement of each new generation’s encounter with it.
Approaches to Teaching Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Title | Approaches to Teaching Chaucer's Canterbury Tales PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Gibaldi |
Publisher | Modern Language Assn of Amer |
Pages | 175 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780873524766 |
A collection of essays that discuss the different techniques teachers can use to help students read and understand Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales." Includes reference materials.
Canterbury Tales
Title | Canterbury Tales PDF eBook |
Author | Geoffrey Chaucer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 318 |
Release | 1903 |
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Approaches to Teaching Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and the Shorter Poems
Title | Approaches to Teaching Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and the Shorter Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Tison Pugh |
Publisher | Approaches to Teaching World L |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
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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.
Teaching Chaucer
Title | Teaching Chaucer PDF eBook |
Author | G. Ashton |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 179 |
Release | 2007-02-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 023062751X |
This volume of essays offers innovations in teaching Chaucer in higher education. The projects explored in this study focus on a student-centred, active learning designed to enhance independent research skills and critical thinking. These studies also seek to establish conversations - between teachers and learners, and students and their texts.
Chaucer's Approach to Gender in the Canterbury Tales
Title | Chaucer's Approach to Gender in the Canterbury Tales PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Laskaya |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780859914819 |
This volume presents a feminist approach to the Canterbury Tales, investigating the ways in which the tensions and contradictions found within the broad contours of medieval gender discourse write themselves into Chaucer's text. Four discourses of medieval masculinity are examined, which simultaneously reinforce and resist one another: heroic or chivalric, Christian, courtly love, and emerging humanist models. Each chapter attempts to negotiate both contemporary assumptions of gender construction, and essentialist readings of gender common to the middle ages; throughout, the author argues that the Canterbury Tales offer a sophisticated discussion of masculinity, and that it strongly indicts some of the prevalent medieval notions of ideal masculinity while still remaining firmly homosocial and homophobic. The book concludes that on the question of gender issues, the Tales are best studied as male-authored texts containing representations and negotiations revealing much about late medieval masculinities. Dr ANNE LASKAYA teaches in the English Department at the University of Oregon.
The Pardoner's Tale
Title | The Pardoner's Tale PDF eBook |
Author | Geoffrey Chaucer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 114 |
Release | 1835 |
Genre | Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages |
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