{"title":"Student Retellings: Adapting Middle English Literature in Singapore","authors":"Katherine Storm Hindley","doi":"10.5070/nc34262325","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/nc34262325","url":null,"abstract":"This article discusses a creative assignment in which students make their own adaptations of Middle English texts. Using three examples of student work, I argue that adaptation encourages students to pay close attention to the medieval text, while also allowing them to build personal and intellectual connections with the material.","PeriodicalId":478652,"journal":{"name":"New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135885086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Wife of Bath, Fanfiction Writer: Teaching “The Seconde Tale of the Wyf of Bath”","authors":"Anna P. Wilson","doi":"10.5070/nc34262322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/nc34262322","url":null,"abstract":"Fanfiction offers a rich and accessible framework for teaching on topics of adaptation and reception in medieval literature. This article outlines a course that teaches the reception history of two canonical medieval texts—the Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight—through fanfiction, with a detailed example of a text taught in this course, a 2008 fanfiction short story which reimagines the Wife of Bath as a fanfiction writer.","PeriodicalId":478652,"journal":{"name":"New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession","volume":"76 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135882997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Musings on the Medieval: An Interview with Caroline Bergvall","authors":"Eva Von Contzen, Sophia Philomena Wolf","doi":"10.5070/nc34262330","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/nc34262330","url":null,"abstract":"This interview focuses on Caroline Bergvall’s medievalist works: Meddle English (2011), Drift (2014), and Alisoun Sings (2019). Bergvall discusses interrelations between her own work and medieval (literary) practices, her handling of medieval source material, and how the term ‘retelling’ relates to her texts.","PeriodicalId":478652,"journal":{"name":"New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession","volume":"143 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135883002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ReMixing Chaucer in a 21st-Century Undergraduate Classroom","authors":"Malte Urban","doi":"10.5070/nc34262329","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/nc34262329","url":null,"abstract":"I am a medievalist who is interested in post-medieval afterlives of medieval texts. In this piece, I offer an imaginary conversation between myself and the texts that feature on a final-year Undergraduate Module that I teach in a UK university. The conversation is modelled on those that are regularly being had in the seminar rooms for this module, giving a sense of the various harmonies and counterpoints that arise when Chaucer is placed alongside adaptations of his work with a heterogeneous student cohort.","PeriodicalId":478652,"journal":{"name":"New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135884156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eva Von Contzen, Candace Barrington, Lisa Lampert-Weissig, Katie Little
{"title":"Editors’ Introduction: The Presence of the Medieval Past—Retellings and Social Value","authors":"Eva Von Contzen, Candace Barrington, Lisa Lampert-Weissig, Katie Little","doi":"10.5070/nc34262338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/nc34262338","url":null,"abstract":"This issue consists of two special clusters: “Retellings of Medieval Literature in the Classroom,” edited by Eva von Contzen and Sophia Philomena Wolf, and “The Social Relevance of Medieval Studies,” edited by Gregory Sadlek.","PeriodicalId":478652,"journal":{"name":"New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession","volume":"243 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135823250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Re-Telling Chaucer in Zadie Smith’s Wife of Willesden","authors":"Mohamed Karim Dhouib","doi":"10.5070/nc34262323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/nc34262323","url":null,"abstract":"This paper studies the co-articulation of the transhistorical issues of gender, race, and sex in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Tale and Zadie Smith’s debut play, The Wife of Willesden. It argues that despite an over 600-year gap, the medieval text and its recent adaptation invoke similar forms of sexual assault and feminine abuse while undermining analogous abstractions and ideological conjectures of anti- feminism: Jamaican-born Londoner Alvita and her medieval foil Alisoun of Bath uncover the ingrained myths of Western phallocentrism and wittily discredit its claims. This paper also examines Smith’s generic and cultural remodelling of the source text and the linguistic and aesthetic interventions she uses to shift a canonical medieval all-white text to a contemporary globalized and transnational London.","PeriodicalId":478652,"journal":{"name":"New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135823766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Politics, Identities and the Contemporary Medieval","authors":"Julia Costa Lopez","doi":"10.5070/nc34262336","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/nc34262336","url":null,"abstract":"This essay seeks to draw attention to the central place of the medieval in both the production of knowledge in the broader social sciences and in contemporary politics. Specifically, I do so through a series of examples that show how a concept of ‘the medieval’ is central in both the production of analytical notions of community, and in contemporary political debates about community and identity formation. Both in the social sciences and modern politics, this uniformized and monolithic concept of ‘the medieval’ works not only to constrain how we understand the period but also to limit our ability to imagine and understand politics beyond the nation-state. This centrality, I argue, calls for increased dialogue between scholars of medieval studies and those in other humanities and social science disciplines.","PeriodicalId":478652,"journal":{"name":"New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135883000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Relevance of the Middle Ages—Revisiting an Old Problem in Light of New Approaches and Teaching Experiences in a Non-Western Context","authors":"Albrecht Classen","doi":"10.5070/nc34262332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5070/nc34262332","url":null,"abstract":"It ought to be an ongoing effort by all scholars/researchers to question the validity, legitimacy, and purposes of their own discipline because we live in an ever-changing world. This also applies to the field of medieval studies that faces considerable difficulties and challenges today with declining numbers of students enrolling in respective classes and lacking support by university administrators. This study begins with a general reflection on where we are today in terms of justifying the humanities at large, that is, of the study of literature particularly, and hence of medieval literature. Then this paper focuses on two universal themes, love and tolerance. While love has been associated with the courtly world since the twelfth century, tolerance does not seem to fit within the medieval context. However, the discussion of tolerance can be utilized as a catalyst for further investigations of medieval culture and literature within the framework of modern and postmodern responses to the Middle Ages. The exploration of this theme as it emerged already at that time offers intriguing opportunities to make the study of medieval literature relevant and important for us today.","PeriodicalId":478652,"journal":{"name":"New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession","volume":"75 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135883994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}