Textual Face: Cognition as Recognition.
- Author / Editor
- Simpson, James.
Textual Face: Cognition as Recognition.
- Published
- Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry, and Melissa Raine, eds. Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018), pp. 218-33.
- Description
- Proposes as an epistemological and hermeneutical concept that "literary cognition is fundamentally a matter of re-cognition," exploring recognition as cognition in literary texts and in the apprehension of literary texts. Examines Virgil’s "Aeneid" as a precondition of recognition in Dante’s "Comedy," and Chaucer’s TC as a precondition of recognition in Henryson’s "Testament of Cresseid," in each case focusing on scenes of perception of a face or faces. Also comments generally on recognition as fundamental to literary pedagogy, in contrast with positivist thinking.
- Alternative Title
- Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Troilus and Criseyde