The Play of Breath: Chaucer's Narratives of Feeling.
- Author / Editor
- Saunders, Corrine.
The Play of Breath: Chaucer's Narratives of Feeling.
- Published
- Arthur Rose, Stefanie Heine, Naya Tsentourou, Corrine Saunders, and Peter Garratt, Reading Breath in Literature ([Cham]: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), pp. 17-39.
- Description
- Treats the connections between "mind, body and affect" in BD, KnT, TC, MLT, LGW, and elsewhere, describing classical and medieval theories of breathing, sighing, and swooning as physiological movements of vital spirits. Playing a key role in Chaucer’s depiction of emotions, "particularly love and grief," this "physiological emphasis creates narratives of feeling that are deeply embodied" and convey virtues and agency.
- Contributor
- Rose, Arthur, ed.
Heine, Stefanie, ed.
Tsentourou, Naya, ed.
Saunders, Corrine, ed.
Garratt, Peter, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Reading Breath in Literature.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess
Troilus and Criseyde
Legend of Good Women
Knight and His Tale
Man of Law and His ale