Brain Physiology and Poetics in 'The Book of the Duchess'
- Author / Editor
- Neaman, Judith S.
Brain Physiology and Poetics in 'The Book of the Duchess'
- Published
- Res Publica Litterarum 3 (1980): 101-13.
- Description
- The narrator, Alcyone, and the Black Knight suffer from melancholy. Brain functions and anatomy, progress, and treatment of the illness are linked chronologically, and the time shifts are analogous to the order and process of brain physiology as understood in the Middle Ages.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.