Approaches to Teaching the Arthurian Tradition
Editor(s): Maureen Fries, Jeanie Watson
Pages: xi & 195 pp.
Published: 1992
ISBN: 9780873527026
"It is a testimony to the usefulness of this latest entry in the MLA's Approaches to Teaching World Literature series that in the course of writing this review, I created or revised syllabi for three courses, at the introductory, upper undergraduate, and graduate levels.... [This] book is an important resource for...teachers of Arthurian material."
Arthuriana
The casebound edition of this title is out of print.
In Approaches to Teaching the Arthurian Tradition, instructors who have taught Arthurian material in contexts from high school to graduate school draw on their experience to address a range of challenges: Where does one begin a course that embraces the most important continuous tradition of British literary history? Which works from which periods and countries should one include? What kinds of background sources in mythology and Celtic tradition are most helpful? What is the place of history, art, music, or film in such a course?
This volume, like others in the Approaches series, is divided into two parts. "Materials" surveys editions of medieval and modern texts and anthologies and highlights reference works, supplemental readings, and aids to teaching. "Approaches" contains twenty-five essays on teaching Arthuriana. Topics include background studies, interdisciplinary courses, major authors (e.g., Chrètien de Troyes, Gottfried, Wolfram, Malory, and Tennyson), and specific pedagogical approaches such as teaching the Arthurian tradition through film, popular culture, and archaeology.
Table of Contents
Approaches to Teaching the Arthurian Tradition
PART 1: MATERIALS
Maureen Fries
- Texts for Teaching
- Medieval Works
- Modern Works
- Anthologies
- Readings for Students and Instructors
- Reference Works
- Primary Sources
- Studies of the Arthurian Literary Tradition
- Literary Contexts
- History, Archaeology, Anthropology
- Serial Publications
- Aids to Teaching
PART 2: APPROACHES
Introduction
The Labyrinthine Ways: Teaching the Arthurian Tradition
Maureen Fries
Teaching the Backgrounds
Teaching the King Arthur of History and Chronicle
Norris J. Lacy
Arthur and the Green World
Alan T. Gaylord
Modern Visions and Revisions of the Matter of Britain
Raymond H. Thompson
Teaching the "Hoole" Tradition
Implementing an Interdisciplinary Course
Kathryn L. Lynch
Teaching Individual Characters and Motifs
Joseph McClatchey
Teaching the "Hoole" Tradition through Parallel Passages
Jay Ruud
The World of King Arthur: An Interdisciplinary Course
Thomas Kelly and Thomas Ohlgren
Teaching the Moderns in an Arthurian Course
Phillip C. Boardman
Teaching Major Authors
Translating Yvain and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight for Classroom Use
Burton Raffel
Teaching Gottfried and Wolfram
James A. Schultz
Which Malory Should I Teach?
Robert L. Kindrick
Teaching Tennyson: Idylls of the King as a Serial Poem
Linda K. Hughes
Teaching White, Stewart, and Berger
Harold J. Herman
Teaching Students at Various Levels
Teaching Arthur at a Summer Institute for Secondary School Teachers
Ruth E. Hamilton
Lignum Vitae in the Two-Year College
Mary L. Beaudry
Arthur the Great Equalizer: Teaching a Course for Graduate and Undergraduate Students
Sally K. Slocum
Malory and the Middle English Romance: A Graduate Course
George R. Keiser
Specific Approaches
Arthurian Archaeology
Paul E. Szarmach
Wagner and the Arthurian Tradition
Martin B. Shichtman
Using Nineteenth-Century Visual Arts in the Literature Classroom
Beverly Taylor
Teaching Arthurian Film
Kevin J. Harty
Arthur for Children
Muriel Whitaker
Women in Arthurian Literature
Maureen Fries
Arthuriana and Popular Culture
Mary Alice Grellner
Works Cited
Index
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