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Approaches to Teaching the Middle English Pearl

Approaches to Teaching the Middle English Pearl

Beal, Jane
Busbee, Mark Bradshaw

Paperback

Series: Approaches to Teaching World Literature, Book 143

Literary CriticismGeneral Reference

ISBN10: 1603292926
ISBN13: 9781603292924
Publisher: Modern Language Assn Of Amer
Published: Aug 1 2017
Pages: 262
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
The moving, richly allegorical poem Pearl was likely written by the anonymous poet who 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.

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