Psychopathology on Melancholy and Imagination

Author / Editor
Ebi, Hisato.

Title
Psychopathology on Melancholy and Imagination

Published
Hisao Turu, ed. Reading Chaucer's Book of the Duchess. Medieval English Literature Symposium Series, no. 5 (Tokyo: Gaku Shobo Press, 1991), pp. 171-200 (in Japanese).

Description
Allegorical elements of BD are closely connected with the theory of melancholy in the late-medieval period. Emphasizes parallelism between mental diseases (melancholy) and the creative mind.

Alternative Title
Reading Chaucer's Book of the Duchess.
Medieval English Literature Symposium Series, no. 5

Chaucer Subjects
Book of the Duchess.