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Titel: Approaches to Teaching the Middle English Pearl
Zustand: Neu
Title Format: Taschenbuch
Description: The moving, richly allegorical poem Pearl was written in Middle English by the anonymous author who likely also penned Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. In it, a man in a garden, grieving the loss of a beloved pearl, dreams of the Pearl-Maiden, who appears across a stream. She teaches him the nature of innocence, God’s grace, meekness, and purity. Though granted a vision of the New Jerusalem by the Pearl-Maiden, the dreamer is pained to discover that he cannot cross the stream himself and join her in bliss—at least not yet. This extraordinary poem is a door into late medieval poetics and Catholic piety.

Part 1 of this volume, “Materials,” introduces instructors to the many resources available for teaching the canonical yet challenging Pearl, including editions, translations, and scholarship on the poem as well as its historical context. The essays in part 2, “Approaches,” offer instructors tools for introducing students to critical issues associated with the poem, such as its authorship, sources and analogues, structure and language, and relation to other works of its time. Contributors draw on interdisciplinary approaches to outline ways of teaching Pearl in a variety of classroom contexts.
Autor: Jane Beal
Buchreihe: Approaches to Teaching World Literature 143
Contributor: Jane Beal (Edited by), Mark Bradshaw Busbee (Edited by)
EAN: 9781603292924
Erscheinungsdatum: 30.08.2017
Genre: Literary Criticism
Gewicht: 383g
Herstellungsland und -region: US
Höhe: 229mm
ISBN: 9781603292924
Länge: 152mm
Produktart: Taschenbuch
Verlag: Modern Language Association of America
Sprache: Englisch

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