Teaching Chaucer / edited by Gail Ashton and Louise Sylvester.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ashton, Gail, 1957-

Sylvester, Louise.

Series:

Teaching the new English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Study and teaching.

Chaucer, Geoffrey.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Canterbury tales--Study and teaching.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Legend of good women--Study and teaching.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Language--Study and teaching.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.

English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500--Study and teaching.

English poetry.

English poetry--Middle English.

Physical Description:

xi, 167 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Summary:

This volume of original essays brings together contributions from both sides of the Atlantic to offer innovations in teaching and learning in Chaucer Studies from scholars and practitioners with hands-on experience of engaging students. Students of Chaucer are often unfamiliar with poetry that is textually, linguistically and culturally different from contemporary material. The projects explored in this study encourage active, often collaborative learning designed to enhance critical thinking and independent research skills. The kinds of learning experiences described here confront, often simultaneously, issues about language, manuscript evidence, the reception of texts, performance and orality, history, and cultural images and contexts - from both medieval and contemporary perspectives. Contributors mediate philosophy and pragmatics to reach out to all those teaching pre-twentieth-century texts for, above all, this book seeks to establish conversations: between students and teachers, students and their peers, and students and texts.

Contents:

1 Chaucer for Fun and Profit / Peggy A. Knapp 17

2 A Series of Linked Assignments for the Undergraduate Course on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales / Steven F. Kruger 30

3 Why We Should Teach-and Our Students Perform-The Legend of Good Women / Fiona Tolhurst 46

4 "Cross-voiced" Assignments and the Critical "I" / Moira Fitzgibbons 65

5 Teaching the Language of Chaucer / Louise Sylvester 81

6 Teaching the Language of Chaucer Manuscripts / Simon Horobin 96

7 Creating Learning Communities in Chaucer Studies: Process and Product / Gail Ashton 105

8 "The wondres that they myghte seen or heere": Designing and Using Web-based Resources to Teach Medieval Literature / Philippa Semper 120

9 Chaucer and the Visual Image: Learning, Teaching, Assessing / Lesley Coote 139.

Notes:

Essays based on a panel discussion organized for the New Chaucer Society colloquium held 2004 in Glasgow.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-162) and index.

Includes web resources.

ISBN:

1403988269

9781403988263

1403988277

9781403988270

OCLC:

76792183

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