Anti-Dualism and Social Mind in Chaucer's "Clerk's Tale."

Author / Editor
Narinsky, Anna.

Title
Anti-Dualism and Social Mind in Chaucer's "Clerk's Tale."

Published
Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas 14.2 (2016): 187-216.

Description
Treats "the operations and qualities of fictional minds" in ClT, "as well as the narrative means through which they are conveyed," examining Griselda, Walter, and the "group consciousness" of the Saluzzan people in light of "modern cognitive sciences," and arguing that Chaucer rejects the mind–body dualism of the "internalist" view of cognition in favor of one that emphasizes the "intermental" interdependence of mind and social environment.

Chaucer Subjects
Clerk and His Tale