New Companion to Critical Thinking on Chaucer

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

Av Stephanie L. Batkie, Matthew W. Irvin, Lynn Shutters, English) Batkie, Stephanie L. (University of the South, English) Irvin, Matthew W. (Associate Professor of English and Chair of Medieval Studies, University of the South, Department of English) Shutters, Lynn (Special Assistant Professor of English, Colorado State University, Stephanie L Batkie, Matthew W Irvin

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This New Companion to Critical Thinking on Chaucer brings together preeminent scholars from around the world and adopts a novel approaching, beginning with the basics: Chaucer's words. Each chapter explores a single word from the Chaucerian corpus to develop readings that extend across the author's works. Without being limited to a particular text or theoretical approach, contributors model scholarly thinking in action, posing questions and offering analyses from textual, theoretical, historical, and material approaches. The result is a comprehensive collection of essays that illuminates Chaucer's aesthetics, philosophical complexity, and continued relevance. Part innovative scholarship, part how-to manual, the volume includes apparatus to help less experienced readers of Chaucer negotiate its contents. In addition to fourteen main essays, the volume also includes three response essays, each modelling how a seasoned scholar uses the chapters to develop his or her own thinking about Chaucer. Thus, the companion offers something to audiences of all levels who wish to read, research, and enjoy Chaucer, his language, and his works.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-08-31
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieArc Companions
Antal sidor368
FörlagArc Humanities Press
ISBN9781641892520

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Stephanie L. Batkie is a Teaching Associate Professor and the Director of Writing Across the Curriculum at the University of the South. She works on Middle English and medieval Latin literature. Matthew Irvin is Associate Professor of English, Chair of Medieval Studies, and Director of the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium at the University of the South. He and Stephanie Batkie are currently co-translating John Gower's Vox Clamantis for the TEAMS Medieval Text Series. Lynn Shutters is Special Assistant Professor of English at Colorado State University; she teaches medieval literature, medievalism, and emotion and literature.

Introduction, by Stephanie L. Batkie, Matthew W. Irvin, and Lynn ShuttersForeword, by Christopher CannonCLUSTER 1Consente/Assente, by Fiona SomersetEntente, by Candace BarringtonPite, by Glenn BurgerSlider, by David RaybinResponse Essay, by Ardis ButterfieldCLUSTER 2Merveille, by Tara WilliamsVirginite, by Sarah SalihSwiven, by Helen BarrCrafte, by Bruce Holsinger Response Essay, by Simon HorobinCLUSTER 3Vertu, by Holly Crocker Wal, by Marion TurnerThing, by Steele NowlinBlacke, by Cord J. WhitakerResponse Essay, by Carolyn DinshawCLUSTER 4Auctorite/Auctor, by R. D. PerrySecular, by Catherine SanokFlesh, by Richard H. GoddenMemorie, by Ruth EvansResponse Essay, by Andrew ColeAppendix 1: Summaries of the Works of ChaucerAppendix 2: Additional TermsAppendix 3: Coverage by TermAppendix 4: Coverage by Work

[A] deeply ethical book whose immediate, constant, and sincere concern is the profound human significance of individual words employed by Chaucer in the creation of his fascinating stories and characters. Each word is chosen for its perennial urgency, immersing readers in a vital literary universe—and inviting them to get personally, civically, socially, philosophically, and bodily engaged with Chaucer’s strikingly modern and relevant poetry. Readers long to engage with issues of sexuality, consent, bodies, race, color, morality, work, creativity, equity, power, agency, and authority—all important discourses in twenty-first-century pedagogy and revealed here as major, trans-temporal themes of Chaucer’s work.[...]A powerful tool for our classrooms, this collection unrelentingly makes Chaucer’s concerns urgent, and it could not have come at a better time in our critical history.