Approaches to Teaching Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Editor(s): Joseph Gibaldi
Pages: xvi & 175 pp.
Published: 1980
ISBN: 9780873524759
"A work of diversity of talent, training, experience, and perspective which is bound together by an obvious common commitment to teach the plenty that exists in Chaucer.... This book should, then, be praised as a significant contribution to the teaching of Chaucer."
College Literature
The casebound edition of this title is out of print.
The inaugural volume in the MLA's popular Approaches to Teaching World Literature series comprises bibliographic and instructional essays devoted to the first great English poet. The consultant editor, Florence H. Ridley, notes in her introduction, "As teachers we are faced with the challenge of enabling our students to see how Chaucer's poetry passes the ultimate test of the world's greatest literature." The pieces collected here address the special difficulties of introducing students to Chaucer's language and his political, social, and intellectual milieu.
Like other books in the Approaches series, this volume is divided into two parts. Part 1, "Materials," surveys editions, anthologies, recommended student readings, recordings, films, and other instructional aids. In part 2, "Approaches," fifteen teachers discuss how to present Chaucer in settings ranging from survey courses for nonmajors to seminars devoted to the author. Readers will find within a variety of useful information, including discussions of Chaucer's cultural context, the representation of women in medieval literature, and the theme of pilgrimage in fourteenth-century poetry.
Table of Contents
Approaches to Teaching Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Introduction: The Challenge of Teaching The Canterbury Tales
Florence H. Ridley
PART 1: MATERIALS
Joseph Gibaldi
- Editions
- Introduction
- Works of Chaucer
- The Canterbury Tales
- Dual-Language Editions and Translations
- Anthologies
Required and Recommended Student Readings
Aids to Teaching
- The Instructor's Library
- Introduction
- Reference Works
- Background Studies
- Critical and Linguistic Studies
PART 2: APPROACHES
Introduction
The Student as Reader of Chaucer
Scala Chauceriensis
John H. Fisher
The Chaucer Course: General Overviews
And Glady Teche the Tales of Caunterbury
Thomas J. Garbáty
The Idea of a Chaucer Course
Donald R. Howard
Diverse Folk Diversely They Teach
Emerson Brown, Jr.
On Making Students Relevant to Chaucer
Mary J. Carruthers
The Chaucer Course: Specific Approaches
A Rhetorical and Structural Emphasis
Robert M. Jordan
The Boethian Unity of the Tales
William Provost
The Cultural Context
Terrie Curran
An Approach to Teaching Chaucer's Language
Thomas W. Ross
Survey Courses for Nonmajors
Teaching Chaucer in a Historical Survey of British Literature
Michael West
A New Route Down Pilgrims' Way: Teaching Chaucer to Nonmajors
Stephen R. Portch
The Crooked Rib: Women in Medieval Literature
Susan Schibanoff
Teaching the Backgrounds
The Intellectual, Artistic, and Historical Context
D. W. Robertson, Jr.
The Canterbury Tales in the Tradition of Western Literature: Chaucer as Scholiast and Etymologizer
Ernest N. Kaulbach
Medieval Pilgrimage
Julia Bolton Holloway
Works Cited
Index
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