Teaching rape in the medieval literature classroom : approaches to difficult texts / edited by Alison Gulley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gulley, Alison, editor.

Series:

Teaching the Middle Ages (ARC Humanities Press)

Teaching the Middle Ages

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.

English literature.

Rape in literature.

Spirituality in literature.

Women and literature--England--History--To 1500.

Women and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 218 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Leeds, UK : Arc Humanities Press, 2019.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Teachers of medieval literature help students bridge the temporal, contextual, and linguistic gulfs between the Middle Ages and the twenty-first century. When episodes involving rape are thrown into the mix, that task becomes even more difficult. Students and teachers bring a variety of experiences to the classroom. This volume proposes ways educators can help students navigate the divide between in- and out-of-class experiences and offers suggestions for classroom activities and assignments for a range of medieval texts, as well as insight into the concerns of students in various settings.

Contents:

Introduction: Teaching rape and meeting the challenges of the twenty-first-century classroom / Alison Gulley

Medieval saints and misogynist times : transhistorical perspectives on sexual violence in the undergraduate classroom / Suzanne M. Edwards

Teaching medieval rape culture across genre : insights from victimology / Wendy Perkins and Christina Di Gangi

Bringing the bystander into the humanities classroom : reading ancient, patristic, and medieval texts on the continuum of violence / Elizabeth A. Hubble

From bystander to upstander : reading the 'Nibelungenleid' to resist rape culture / Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand

Speech, silence, and teaching Chaucer's rapes / Tison Pugh

Classroom PSA : values, law, and ethics in 'The Reeve's tale' / Emily Houlik-Ritchey

"How do we know he really raped her?" : using the BBC 'Canterbury tales' to confront student skepticism towards the Wife of Bath / Alison Gulley

Teaching the Potiphar's wife motif in Marie de France's 'Lanval' / Elizabeth Harper

Sexual compulsion and sexual violence in the 'Lais' of Marie de France / Misty Urban

Troubadour lyric, 'Fin'amors', and rape culture / Daniel E. O'Sullivan

The knight coerced : two cases of raped men in chivalric romance / David Grubbs

Teaching rape to the he-man Woman Haters Club : Chr©♭tien de Troyes at a military school / Alan Baragona

Rape, identity, and redemption : teaching "Sir Gowther" in the community college classroom / William H. Smith.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-64189-951-4

1-58044-316-8

1-64189-033-9

OCLC:

1159723519