Teaching Chaucer

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   • Gail Ashton

   Pages 1-16

3. Chaucer for Fun and Profit

   • Peggy A. Knapp

   Pages 17-29

4. A Series of Linked Assignments for the Undergraduate Course on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales

   • Steven F. Kruger

   Pages 30-45

5. Why We Should Teach—and Our Students Perform—The Legend of Good Women

   • Fiona Tolhurst

   Pages 46-64

6. “Cross-voiced” Assignments and the Critical “I”

   • Moira Fitzgibbons

   Pages 65-80

7. Teaching the Language of Chaucer

   • Louise Sylvester

   Pages 81-95

8. Teaching the Language of Chaucer Manuscripts

   • Simon Horobin

   Pages 96-104

9. Creating Learning Communities in Chaucer Studies: Process and Product

   • Gail Ashton

   Pages 105-119

10. “The wondres that they myghte seen or heere”: Designing and Using Web-based Resources to Teach Medieval Literature

    • Philippa Semper

    Pages 120-138

11. Chaucer and the Visual Image: Learning, Teaching, Assessing

    • Lesley Coote

    Pages 139-152

12. Back Matter

    Pages 153-167

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This volume of essays offers innovations in teaching Chaucer in higher education. The projects explored in this study focus on a student-centred, active learning designed to enhance independent research skills and critical thinking. These studies also seek to establish conversations - between teachers and learners, and students and their texts.

• bibliography
• Chaucer
• design
• education
• essay
• Geoffrey Chaucer
• knowledge
• literature
• manuscript
• manuscripts
• medieval literature
• Middle Ages
• project
• projects
• women

• University of Manchester, UK

  Gail Ashton

• University of Central England, Birmingham, UK

  Louise Sylvester

LESLEY COOTE Lecturer in English and Film Studies at the University of Hull, UK MOIRA FITZGIBBONS Assistant Professor in the English Department at Marist College, USA SIMON HOROBIN Reader in English Language at the University of Glasgow, UK PEGGY A. KNAPP Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University, USA STEVEN F. KRUGER Professor of English and Medieval Studies at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA PHILIPPA SEMPER Lecturer in Medieval Language and Literature at the University of Birmingham, UK FIONA TOLHURST Associate Professor of English at Alfred University, New York, USA

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