Approaches to teaching the Romance of the rose / edited by Daisy Delogu and Anne-Hélène Miller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Delogu, Daisy, editor.

Miller, Anne-Hélène, editor.

Series:

Approaches to teaching world literature ; 170.

Approaches to teaching world literature, 1059-1133 ; 170

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Guillaume, de Lorris, active 1230. Roman de la rose.

Guillaume.

Guillaume, de Lorris, active 1230--Study and teaching (Higher).

Guillaume, de Lorris, active 1230.

Roman de la rose (Guillaume, de Lorris).

Education, Higher.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

vi, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2023.

Summary:

"Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching the Romance of the Rose, including its allegorical form; intellectual and ethical contexts; presentation of masculinity, femininity, and sexuality; and literary and visual adaptations. Gives syllabus suggestions for undergraduate and graduate courses in French literature, philosophy, religion, gender studies, art history, and medieval studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: The Rose, a medieval bestseller / Daisy Delogu and Anne-Hélène Miller

Part one: Materials

Strategic selections

Editions and translations

Works that work with the Rose

Background reading

List of principal characters

Principal episodes and concordance / Anne-Hélène Miller

Part two: Approaches

Context and framing. The Rose and its readers: structure, voices, and interpretation / Kevin Brownlee and Daisy Delogu ; Jean de Meun's intellectual milieu / Alex Novikoff ; The ethics of the Rose / Jessica Rosenfeld ; Classical mythology and its functions in the Rose / Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski

Critical approaches. A psychoanalytic approach: beyond narcissism; or, the elusiveness of the erotic object / Claire Nouvet ; Gender and sexuality in the Rose I: theory and discourse / Chimène Bateman ; Gender and sexuality in the Rose II: clerical culture and medieval masculinities / Tracy Adams ; Humans, animals, and nature in the Rose / Jonathan Morton ; Gardens of love, east and west: reading the Rose in a cross-cultural context / Eva Kuras

Teaching strategies. Teaching the Rose through performance / Evelyn Birge Vitz ; Allegorical literature and dream visions / Suzanne Conklin Akbari ; Placing the Rose in its material and artistic context / Elizabeth Woodward ; Team-teaching with art historical and literary approaches / Daisy Delogu and Aden Kumler ; Teaching the digital Rose / Stephen G. Nichols

Receptions of the Rose. French poetic continuations and adaptations of the Rose / Stephanie A. Viereck Gibbs Kamath ; Sixteenth-century French poets and the rose / Anne-Hélène Miller ; Teaching Middle English literature with the Rose / Olivia Robinson ; Il Fiore and the Italian reception of the Rose / Eleonora Stoppino ; Teaching the debate about the Rose / Christine McWebb

Appendix A: The anonymous conclusion / Stephanie A. Viereck Gibbs Kamath

Appendix B: A sample of glossed text / Olivia Robinson

Notes on contributors

Survey respondents

Works cited

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Approaches to teaching the Romance of the rose

ISBN:

9781603295673

1603295674

9781603295680

1603295682

OCLC:

1338131005