First Encounter: "Snail-Horn Perception" in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde."
- Author / Editor
- Robertson, Elizabeth.
First Encounter: "Snail-Horn Perception" in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde."
- Published
- Helen M. Hickey, Anne McKendry, and Melissa Raine, eds. Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018), pp. 25-41.
- Description
- Assesses Troilus's and Criseyde's first looks at one another in TC as examples of physiological sense perception, rather than as mental or emotional processes or stages. Resists feminist and patristic readings of these gazes, and reads them in light of medieval philosophy, arguing that Chaucer, through them, "first conveys the physiological and phenomenological processes by which an animal cognises the world; and, second, how those processes are complicated when perception becomes social."
- Alternative Title
- Contemporary Chaucer across the Centuries.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
Background and General Criticism