Approaches to Teaching LanglandÆs Piers Plowman

Klappentext Offers pedagogical techniques for teaching William Langland's Piers Plowman in college classrooms, including consideration of versification, hunger, popular culture, language, translation, dramatic adaptations, the A, B, and C texts, and historical contexts. Includes information on reference works, online resources, and clerical orders. Gives syllabus suggestions for undergraduate and graduate courses. Zusammenfassung A series of dream visions, Piers Plowman is a moral reckoning of the whole of medieval England, in which every part of society-from church and king to every sort of “folk” is considered in the light of the narrator's interpretation of Christian revelation. This volume offers strategies for guiding students through this challenging text.

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• Authors: GOODMANN, Thomas A. (EDT) Goodmann
• Assisted by: Thomas A Goodmann (Editor), Thomas A. Goodmann (Editor)
• Publisher: Modern Language Assn Of Amer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781603293396
• ISBN: 978-1-60329-339-6
• Series: Approaches to Teaching World L; Approaches to Teaching World L; Approaches to Teaching World Literature S.; Approaches to Teaching World Literature
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies