Teaching Medieval and Early Modern Cross-Cultural Encounters [Paperback]

Drawing from theatre, English studies, and art history, among others, these essays discuss the challenges and rewards of teaching medieval and early modern texts in the 21st-century university. Topics range from the intersections of race, religion, gender, and nation in cross-cultural encounters to the use of popular culture as pedagogical tools.Foreword; Lisa Lampert-Weissig Introduction; Karina F. Attar and Lynn Shutters PART I: SYNCHRONIC CROSS-CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS 1. Andalusian Iberias: From Spanish to Iberian Literature; Seth Kimmel 2. Using Feminist Pedagogy to Explore Connectivity in the Medieval Mediterranean; Megan Moore 3. A Journey through the Silk Road in a Cosmopolitan Classroom; Kyunghee Pyun 4. Teaching English Travel Writing from 1500 to the Present; Elizabeth Pentland 5. Stranger than Fiction: Early Modern Travel Narratives and the Antiracist Classroom; Julia Schleck 6. Different Shakespeares: Thinking Globally in an Early Modern Literature Course; Barbara Sebek PART II: SYNCHRONIC AND DIACHRONIC CROSS-CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS 7. The Moor of America: Approaching the Crisis of Race and Religion in the Renaissance and the Twenty-First Century; Ambereen Dadabhoy 8. 'Real' Bodies? Race, Corporality, and Contradiction in The Arabian Nights and Pier Paolo Pasolini's Il fiore delle mille e una notte (1974); Andrea Mirabile and Lynn Ramey 9. Encountering Saracens in Italian Chivalric Epic and Folk Performance Traditions; Jo Ann Cavallo 10. Beowulf as Hero of Empire; Janice Hawes PART III: DIACHRONIC CROSS-CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS 11. Resurrecting Callimachus : Pop Music, Puppets, and the Necessity of Performance in Teaching Medieval Drama; Jenna Soleo-Shanks 12. Teaching Chaucer through Convergence Culture: The New Media Middle Ages as Cross-Cultural Encounter; Tison Pugh

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