Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of John Gower

Informationen zum Autor R. F. Yeager is professor of English and chair of the Department of English and Foreign Languages at the University of West Florida. He has written and edited on Gower, Chaucer, and Old and Middle English literatures and has translated Gower's shorter Latin Poetry, the Traitié pour essampler les amantz marietz and the Cinkante balades , both for TEAMS. He is president of the International John Gower Society and edits the John Gower Newsletter . Brian W. Gastle is the department head and associate dean of the graduate school and associate professor of English at Western Carolina University, where he teaches both medieval literature and professional / technical / Web writing. He has published on Gower, Chaucer, Margerey Kempe, and the Pastons, and he has prepared print, online, and multimedia pedagogical materials for the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction and PBS. He serves as the Web master for the International John Gower Society. Klappentext A poet who wrote fluently in Middle English, Anglo-French, and Latin, John Gower typifies the English Middle Ages. Gower is increasingly acknowledged as a poet whose texts offer unique opportunities to teachers wishing to introduce their students to the riches of medieval literature. The essays in part 1 review the available editions and translations of Gower's works, compile useful electronic resources, and discuss the sources and analogues and critical work on his canon. In part 2 contributors make recommendations for teaching the historical context of Gower's writing.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: R. F. (EDT)/ Gastle Yeager
• Mitarbeit: Brian W Gastle (Herausgeber), Brian W. Gastle (Herausgeber), R F Yeager (Herausgeber), R. F. Yeager (Herausgeber), Robert F Yeager (Herausgeber), Robert F. Yeager (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Modern Language Assn Of Amer
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 01.08.2011
• EAN: 9781603290999
• ISBN: 978-1-60329-099-9
• Seiten: 236
• Abmessung: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Serien: Approaches to Teaching World L; Approaches to Teaching World Literature; Approaches to World Literature; Approaches to Teaching World L; Approaches to Teaching World Literature S.; Approaches to World Literature; Approaches to Teaching World Literature
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft