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Volume 38, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 0890-2917
  • E-ISSN: 2031-0242

Abstract

Abstract

This is a composition in two parts. The first is a reflection on how motherhood helped me to see a better way to teach medieval literature, one not so closely bound to the praxis of today’s literature classroom. And the second is a lesson plan that emerged from those experiences that shows how a teacher could use these strategies to draw and visualize key scenes in William Langland’s in a scaffolded and schematic manner — a form of reverse outlining or idea mapping of the that constitute the dreamer Will’s world, and which, in turn, serves as the hermeneutic framework for further interpretation.

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References

  1. Manuscripts
    Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 104
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    Langland, William, Piers Plowman, ed. by Elizabeth Robertson and Stephen H. A. Shepherd and trans. by E. T. Donaldson (New York: Norton, 2006)
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