Geoffrey Chaucer's Mind Games: Household Management and Literary Aesthetics in the Prologue to the "Legend of Good Women."

Author / Editor
Keller, Wolfram R.

Title
Geoffrey Chaucer's Mind Games: Household Management and Literary Aesthetics in the Prologue to the "Legend of Good Women."

Published
Thomas Honegger and Dirk Vanderbeke, eds. From Peterborough to Faery: The Poetics and Mechanics of Secondary Worlds; Essays in Honour of Dr. Allan G. Turner's 65th Birthday (Zurich: Walking Tree, 2014), pp. 1-24.

Description
Describes the medieval understanding of "faculty psychology"--the three cells or ventricles where imagination, logic, and memory reside--and argues that HF "takes the audience" through the three ventricles, while exploring the creative potential of the persistent "imaginational disharmony." LGWP depicts the "poet's journey through his own noisy mental apparatus," problematizing imaginational disharmony and compelling his audience to explore the efforts and pleasure of interpretation.

Contributor
Honegger, Thomas, ed.
Vanderbeke, Dirk, ed.

Alternative Title
From Peterborough to Faery: The Poetics and Mechanics of Secondary Worlds; Essays in Honour of Dr. Allan G. Turner's 65th Birthday.

Chaucer Subjects
Legend of Good Women