Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. ix, 208 pages; 24 cm

Summary

1. "Species, Phantasms and Images situates Chaucer's poetry within a number of discourse communities that have not generally been recognized as the intellectual context of Chaucer's work and creates new and significantly different interpretations of a number of individual tales. Offering new and innovative perspectives, Collette's discussion reveals a previously unrecognized topos centered in the effect of sensory-based imagination on human relationships in The Canterbury Tales. This topos of sight and imagination bears directly on how Chaucer understood the human body and how his audience understood the effect of individual imagination on dynamic relationships."--Jacket.

Subject

1. Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
2. Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 > Knowledge and learning
3. Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
4. Chaucer, Geoffrey
5. Canterbury tales (Chaucer, Geoffrey)
6. Racconti di Canterbury
7. Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature
8. Tales, Medieval > History and criticism
9. Visual perception in literature
10. Psychology in literature
11. Vision in literature
12. Literature, Medieval > history
13. Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature
14. Psychology
15. Psychology in literature
16. Tales, Medieval
17. Vision in literature
18. Visual perception in literature
19. Visuelle Wahrnehmung
20. Imagination

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

1. 1. The Psychology of Sight -- 2. The "Foule Prisoun of This Lyf": Limited Visions in "The Knight's Tale" -- 3. Tales of Marriage, Fantasye, and Wille -- 4. Objects of Desire: Sight, Judgment, and the Unity of Fragment VI -- 5. Nature Obeying the Thoughts and Desires of the Soul: Alchemy and Vision in "The Second Nun's Tale" and "The Canon's Yeoman's Tale" -- 6. Understondyng: "The Parson's Tale."

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-200) and index.