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Approaches to Teaching Chaucer's Canterbury Tales / edited by Peter W. Travis and Frank Grady.

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Other Authors: Travis, Peter W. (Editor), Grady, Frank (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : The Modern Language Association of America, 2014.
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Approaches to teaching world literature.
Subjects:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400. > Canterbury tales.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400 > Study and teaching.
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature.
Narrative poetry, English > Study and teaching.
Tales, Medieval > Study and teaching.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400.
Canterbury tales (Chaucer, Geoffrey)
Study skills.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: a survey of pedagogical approaches to The Canterbury Tales
  • Teaching Chaucer's Middle English
  • The forms and functions of verse in The Canterbury Tales
  • Teaching the prosody of The Canterbury Tales
  • Teaching Chaucer in Middle English: the joy of philology
  • Worrying about words in The Canterbury Tales
  • Getting Chaucer's jokes
  • The problem of tale order
  • Chaucer and the Middle Class; or, why look at men of law, merchants, or wives?
  • Professions in the general prologue
  • Teaching Chaucer's obscene comedy in fragment 1
  • The Man of Law's Tale as a keystone to The Canterbury Tales
  • Beyond Kittredge: teaching marriage in The Canterbury Tales
  • The Clerk's Tale and the retraction: generic monstrosity in the classroom
  • Students' "Fredom" and the Franklin's Tale
  • The Prioress's Tale: violence, scholarly debate, and the classroom encounter
  • Chaucer's boring prose: teaching the Melibee and the Parson's Tale
  • How to judge a book by its cover
  • Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales in the undergraduate English Language Arts Curriculum
  • A first year's experience of teaching The Canterbury Tales
  • Teaching The Canterbury Tales to non-liberal-arts students
  • Chaucer and race: teaching The Canterbury Tales to the diverse folk of the twenty-first century classroom
  • Making the tales more tangible: Chaucer and Medieval culture in secondary schools
  • Producing The Canterbury Tales
  • Reading food in The Canterbury Tales
  • Teaching Chaucer's Canterbury Tales with queer theory and erotic triangles
  • Chaucerian translations: postcolonial approaches to The Canterbury Tales
  • Chaucer's cut
  • Performance and the student body
  • Hidden in plain sight: teaching masculinities in The Canterbury Tales
  • The Pardoner's "Old Man": postmodern theory and premodern text
  • Designing the undergraduate "Hybrid" Chaucer course
  • Public Chaucer: multimedia approaches to teaching Chaucer's Middle English texts
  • Chaucer's pilgrims in cyberspace
  • Translating The Canterbury Tales into contemporary media
  • Digitizing Chaucerian debate
  • Signature pedagogies in Chaucer studies.

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