"Dying of Imagination" in the First Fragment of the "Canterbury Tales."
- Author / Editor
- Tasioulas, Jacqueline.
"Dying of Imagination" in the First Fragment of the "Canterbury Tales."
- Published
- Medium Aevum 82.2 (2013): 213-35.
- Description
- Explores "the role of the imagination" in KnT, with attention also to MilT and RvT, focusing on the "cerebral process" in the "amorous desire" of the characters, especially Arcite, whose lovers' malady results from his "lack of imaginative control." Summarizes medieval notions of psychology and imagination, discusses adaptations of Boccaccio and Boethius in KnT, and analyzes the recurrent concern with seeing, imagining, desiring, and willing in the first three narratives of CT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale
Miller and His Tale
Reeve and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations