Chaucer for Fun and Profit

Author / Editor
Knapp, Peggy A.

Title
Chaucer for Fun and Profit

Published
Gail Ashton and Louise Sylvester, eds. Teaching Chaucer (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp. 17-29.

Description
Uses theoretical perspectives from Raymond Williams, Emmanuel Kant, and Hans-Georg Gadamer to explain and justify a pedagogical approach to CT based on student pursuit of individual "keywords" in the text and students' selection of a single pilgrim from whose perspective they will judge the Canterbury contest.

Alternative Title
Teaching Chaucer.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General.
Language and Word Studies.