Cloudy Thoughts: Cognition and Affect in "Troilus and Criseyde."
- Author / Editor
- Trigg, Stephanie.
Cloudy Thoughts: Cognition and Affect in "Troilus and Criseyde."
- Published
- Jennifer Jahner and Ingrid Nelson, eds. Gender, Poetry, and the Form of Thought in Later Medieval Literature: Essays in Honor of Elizabeth A. Robertson (Bethlehem, Pa.: Lehigh University Press, 2022), pp. 25-46.
- Description
- Explicates the shift from Criseyde's bright thoughts of love to cloudy ones in TC, II.764ff., part of a "broader pattern of sun and cloud imagery" in the poem. Uses cognition theory and resonances with Boethius's "Consolatio" to argue that the passage encourages us to "feel with" Criseyde while simultaneously recognizing her gendered associations with changeable fortune. Also assesses implications of this "image cluster" in MkT, 2766, and NPP, 2782
- Alternative Title
- Gender, Poetry, and the Form of Thought in Later Medieval Literature
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
Monk and His Tale
Nun's Priest and His Tale
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