Reason and Imagination in Chaucer, the "Perle"-Poet, and the "Cloud"-Author: Seeing from the Center
- Author / Editor
- Holley, Linda Tarte.
Reason and Imagination in Chaucer, the "Perle"-Poet, and the "Cloud"-Author: Seeing from the Center
- Published
- New York: Palgrave Mcmillan, 2011.
- Physical Description
- xvi, 184 pp.
- Series
- The New Middle Ages
- Description
- Building on recent studies related to space and epistemology, this study argues that Chaucer, as well as the "Pearl"-poet and author of "The Cloud of Unknowing," take a pedagogical stance in their writing and "proffer a space from which or by means of which the audience may see and understand." Knowledge through imagination, or analogy, works alongside knowledge via reason, or metaphor; in either case, understanding is predicated on measurement or motion. Focuses on NPT, HF, BD, and Astr.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale
- House of Fame
- Book of the Duchess
- Treatise on the Astrolabe