The Heart: Chaucer's Concretization of Emotions
- Author / Editor
- Gross, Laila.
The Heart: Chaucer's Concretization of Emotions
- Published
- McNeese Review 21 (1974-75): 89-102.
- Description
- Describes techniques used by medieval authors for presenting human emotions, drawing examples from various writers, and focusing on Chaucer's uses of the heart as a physical object or a concrete image in depicting the pains of love, whether caused by joy, sorrow, jealousy, anger, and the like. Includes examples from TC, BD, LGW, CT, Rom, and various other medieval works.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.