Brain Physiology and Poetics in 'The Book of the Duchess'

Author / Editor
Neaman, Judith S.

Title
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.