Teaching the Squire's Tale as an Exercise in Literary History
- Author / Editor
- Ambrisco, Alan S.
Teaching the Squire's Tale as an Exercise in Literary History
- Published
- SMART 10.1: 5-18, 2003.
- Description
- Ambrisco describes teaching SqT as an "unsolved problem in Chaucerian reception"--SqT is a work favored by the Franklin and early readers such as Spenser and Milton, but decried or ignored by formalist critics. Opening class discussion to the Orientalism of SqT, this approach empowers students to develop their own understanding of the Tale and of other works of medieval literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Squire and His Tale.