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Species, phantasms, and images : vision and medieval psychology in The Canterbury tales

Title: Species, phantasms, and images : vision and medieval psychology in The Canterbury tales / Carolyn P. Collette.
Author: Collette, Carolyn P.
Publication: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2001.

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Description

ix, 208 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"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

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

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

Contents

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."

ISBN

0472111612
9780472111619

LCCN

00051175

OCLC

ocm45248228
45248228
SCSB-14584056

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library