Title
Approaches to Teaching Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Second EditionApproaches to Teaching Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales Second Edition
Role
Co-Editors: Peter W. Travis and Frank Grady
Contributing Author: Robert Epstein
Files
Document Type
Book Contribution
Description/Summary
Robert Epstein is a contributing author, “Students’ “Fredom” and the Franklin’s Tale.”
Book description: This second edition of Approaches to Teaching Chaucer's Canterbury Tales reflects the wide variety of contexts in which students encounter the poem and the diversity of perspectives and methods instructors bring to it. Perennial topics such as class, medieval marriage, genre, and tale order rub shoulders with considerations of violence, postcoloniality, masculinities, race, and food in the tales. The first section, "Materials," reviews available editions, scholarship, and audiovisual and electronic resources for studying The Canterbury Tales. In the second section, "Approaches," thirty-six essays discuss strategies for teaching Chaucer's language, for introducing theory in the classroom, for focusing on individual tales, and for using digital resources in the classroom. The multiplicity of approaches reflects the richness of Chaucer's work and the continuing excitement of each new generation's encounter with it.
ISBN
9781603291415
Publication Date
2014
Publication Information
Epstein, Robert. “Students’ “Fredom” and the Franklin’s Tale.” In Approaches to Teaching Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Second Edition. Edited by Peter W. Travis and Frank Grady. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2014.
Recommended Citation
Travis, Peter W.; Grady, Frank; and Epstein, Robert, "Approaches to Teaching Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Second EditionApproaches to Teaching Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales Second Edition" (2014). English Faculty Book Gallery. 73.
https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/english-books/73
Comments
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