Approaches to Teaching the Song of RolandWilliam W. Kibler, Leslie Zarker Morgan Modern Language Association of America, 2006 - 317 sidor Each book contains a CD featuring performances of the Song of Roland. The Song of Roland is a well-known hallmark of medieval French literature, yet students often read only excerpts and receive general introductions to the poem and its context. The challenges of teaching Roland include its age and subject matter, its form and composition in Old French, and its representation of Christians and Muslims. This volume in the MLA series Approaches to Teaching World Literature aims to help nonspecialist instructors teach Roland more comprehensively and to offer seasoned medievalists ways to invigorate their pedagogical tactics. Part 1, "Materials," surveys available editions, a wide range of secondary studies devoted to the poem, and electronic aids to teaching. Essays in part 2, "Approaches," elaborate on the poem's contexts, avatars, language techniques, and characters and episodes; describe the diverse classroom strategies that experienced instructors have implemented; and review the voluminous critical canon about the poem. The musical quality of the Song of Roland is vital for students to grasp. A compact disc accompanying the volume showcases reconstructions of sung performances of the Song of Roland in Old French. The examples offered here illuminate the rich quality of Roland's archaic language and demonstrate a few efforts to recover its lost music. Paired with performances of Roland are melodies used as models for singing the poem. |
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... Latin manuscript at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris , fonds latin 4841. Here we learn that Eggihard died on 15 August and was buried in a church dedicated to Saint Vincent . What precisely happened on 15 August 778 ? There are two ...
... Latin manuscript at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris , fonds latin 4841. Here we learn that Eggihard died on 15 August and was buried in a church dedicated to Saint Vincent . What precisely happened on 15 August 778 ? There are two ...
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... Latin Fran- corum ) , so that the whole formula Geste Francor seems to invoke quite un- equivocally the official Latin history of the empire . Line 2095 is particularly interesting from the point of view of the interrelation of ...
... Latin Fran- corum ) , so that the whole formula Geste Francor seems to invoke quite un- equivocally the official Latin history of the empire . Line 2095 is particularly interesting from the point of view of the interrelation of ...
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... Latin rhetorical composition . The last line of the poem offers a similar co- nundrum , if we make the usual assumptions of those who equate oral com- position and transmission with illiteracy . In the original the line reads , “ Ci ...
... Latin rhetorical composition . The last line of the poem offers a similar co- nundrum , if we make the usual assumptions of those who equate oral com- position and transmission with illiteracy . In the original the line reads , “ Ci ...
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Editions and Translations | 9 |
Audiovisual and Electronic Resources | 20 |
Later Traditions Deriving from | 27 |
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