Getting Medieval on Graduate Education

Strouse, A. W.

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“…For graduate students, "being in opposition does not simply mean confronting abstract ideas; frequently and most uncomfortably it means confronting one's professors" (Margolis & Romero, 2001, p. 89). Given these circumstances, "successful" students are often those who readily assimilate to disciplinary paradigms, while students who re-define these paradigms have a more difficult experience (Gair & Mullins, 2001;Strouse, 2014). In some cases, this environment might tacitly discourage civic engagement activities, social justice concerns, and the retention of graduate students who espouse them.…”

Section: Patterns Of Thought and Behavior Are Enforced Via Institutiomentioning

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Navigating a Wayward Path toward Public Engagement

DelNero¹

2017

Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning

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Section: Patterns Of Thought and Behavior Are Enforced Via Institutiomentioning

confidence: 99%

Navigating a Wayward Path toward Public Engagement

DelNero¹

2017

Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning

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Sir Orfeo as a Critical/Liberal/Art

Strouse

2015

Postmedieval

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Love and its Critics

Bryson¹,

Movsesian²

2017

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This book is a history of love and the challenge love offers to the laws and customs of its times and places, as told through poetry from the Song of Songs to John Milton’s Paradise Lost. It is also an account of the critical reception afforded to such literature, and the ways in which criticism has attempted to stifle this challenge. Bryson and Movsesian argue that the poetry they explore celebrates and reinvents the love the troubadour poets of the eleventh and twelfth centuries called fin’amor: love as an end in itself, mutual and freely chosen even in the face of social, religious, or political retribution. Neither eros nor agape, neither exclusively of the body, nor solely of the spirit, this love is a middle path. Alongside this tradition has grown a critical movement that employs a 'hermeneutics of suspicion', in Paul Ricoeur’s phrase, to claim that passionate love poetry is not what it seems, and should be properly understood as worship of God, subordination to Empire, or an entanglement with the structures of language itself – in short, the very things it resists. The book engages with some of the seminal literature of the Western canon, including the Bible, the poetry of Ovid, and works by English authors such as William Shakespeare and John Donne, and with criticism that stretches from the earliest readings of the Song of Songs to contemporary academic literature. Lively and enjoyable in its style, it attempts to restore a sense of pleasure to the reading of poetry, and to puncture critical insistence that literature must be outwitted. It will be of value to professional, graduate, and advanced undergraduate scholars of literature, and to the educated general reader interested in treatments of love in poetry throughout history.

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Getting Medieval on Graduate Education

Cited by 15 publications

References 32 publications

Navigating a Wayward Path toward Public Engagement

Navigating a Wayward Path toward Public Engagement

Sir Orfeo as a Critical/Liberal/Art

Love and its Critics

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