Approaches to Teaching Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and the Shorter Poems
- Author / Editor
- Pugh, Tison, and Angela Jane Weisl, eds.
Approaches to Teaching Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and the Shorter Poems
- Published
- New York: Modern Language Association, 2007.
- Physical Description
- xiii, 217 pp.
- Description
- Thirty brief essays on teaching TC, BD, HF, PF, LGW, and the lyrics, divided into four groups and an appendix: (1) materials (survey of editions and teaching aids by the editors); (2) backgrounds (lyrics, William A. Quinn; French tradition, Karla Taylor; Italian tradition, Warren Ginsberg; Boethius, Dante, and tragedy, Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr.; vernacular writing, Susannah Mary Chewning; paleography and codicology, Julia Boffey; paganism and Christianity, Scott Lightsey; contemporary politics and the New Troy, Alison A. Baker; women in Chaucer's poetry, Lynn Arner; masculinities and Brian Helgeland's A Knight's Tale, Holly A. Crocker); (3) approaches (performance, William A. Quinn; critical tradition, Glenn A. Steinberg; three lyrics, Carolynn Van Dyke; postmodern dream visions, Myra Seaman; LGW, Michael Calabrese; TC as dialogic, Clare R. Kinney; words, antiquity, and the narrator in TC, Peggy A. Knapp; gender theory, the editors; Chaucer, Henryson, and Shakespeare, Roger Apfelbaum; deconstruction, historicism, and psychoanalysis, James J. Paxson; grammar and An ABC, Martha Rust; prosody in Rom and PF, Alan T. Gaylord; reading Middle English, Barbara Stevenson; visual approaches, Glenn Davis; Grandson and Chaucer, Jean-François Kosta-Théfaine); (4) course contexts (notes from first-time teaching, Jenifer Sutherland; using journals and debates, Marcia Smith Marzec; teaching nonmajors, Adam Brooke Davis; teaching graduate students, Lorraine Kochanske Stock); (5) appendix on reading aloud, Alan T. Gaylord.
- Contributor
- Weisl, Angela Jane, ed.
- Quinn, William A.
- Taylor, Karla.
- Ginsberg, Warren.
- Kaylor, Noel Harold, Jr.
- Chewning, Susannah Mary.
- Boffey, Julia.
- Lightsey, Scott.
- Baker, Alison A.
- Arner, Lynn.
- Crocker, Holly A.
- Steinberg, Glenn A.
- Van Dyke, Carolynn.
- Seaman, Myra.
- Calabrese, Michael.
- Kinney, Clare R.
- Knap
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Book of the Duchess.
- House of Fame.
- Parliament of Fowls.
- Legend of Good Women.
- Lyrics and Short Poems.