299 KB0 KB200420252005Kennedy, Victorštevilka:1/2letnik:2str. 139-154COBISSID:14670088ISSN:1581-8918URN:URN:NBN:SI:doc-PAL9K6EGenSlovensko društvo za angleške študijeELOPE (Ljubljana)angleška književnostastrolabastrologijaastronomijaChaucer, Geoffreysrednjeveška književnostAstronomical references in Chaucer| what can modern students learn from studying ancient texts?|One of the problems in the field of English literature studies is that, with compartmentalization and specialization, it becomes introspective to the point where it devolves into the study of metafiction and metacriticism. At its heart, however, literature has to be about something: Thackeray claimed its subject is human nature, but human nature is based in the interface between human and nature. This paper explores some of the problems in the interface between human knowledge, institutions, and nature, and will offer an example of cross-disciplinary, historical study to illustrate a well-known but, to most modern readers, impenetrable medieval text, Chaucer's Treatise on the Astrolabe. It ends with three recommendations: look to history, cross boundaries between academic fields, and use practical, as well as theoretical, teaching methodsEden izmed problemov študija angleške književnosti je njegova introspektivna usmerjenost v raziskovanje metafikcije in metakritike, ki je posledica drobljenja stroke na specializirane in področne interese. V osnovi namreč književnost nujno govori o nečem. Thackeray trdi, da je njegov predmet človeška narava, toda ta je odvisna od medsebojnosti človeškosti in narave. Prispevek se dotika nekaterih vprašanj povezanosti človeškega vedenja, institucij in narave ter predstavi primer meddiscipinarne, zgodovinske obravnave znanega, a večini bralcev nedoumljivega srednjeveškega besedila Geoffreyja Chaucherja z naslovom Treatise on the Astrolabe. Avtor sklene svoje razmišljanje s tremi priporočili: upoštevaj zgodovino, glej čez meje akademskih polj in uporabljaj praktične pa tudi teoretske metode učenjaTEXTznanstveno časopisjejournalsSlovenian National E-content AggregatorNational and University Library of SloveniaUniverza v Ljubljani, Filozofska fakulteta, Znanstvena založba