Satirical Mind Blindness
- Author / Editor
- Vermeule, Blakey
Satirical Mind Blindness
- Published
- Classical and Modern Literature 22.2: 85-101, 2002
- Description
- Describes the cognitive condition of "mind blindness," often associated with autism, and argues that a literary version of the condition recurs in satire, where authors use the blind spots of characters to ironically convey unstated information. Uses examples from modern political discourse, classical and eighteenth-century satires, and Chaucer's descriptive technique in GP.
- Chaucer Subjects
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.