"A lowde voys clepyng": Voice-Hearing, Revelation, and Imagination.
- Author / Editor
- Saunders, Corinne.
"A lowde voys clepyng": Voice-Hearing, Revelation, and Imagination.
- Published
- Annette Kern-Stähler and Elizabeth Robertson, eds. Literature and the Senses (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. 107-24.
- Description
- Comments on medieval and modern understandings of hearing voices, then assesses the phenomenon in Middle English romances and mystical accounts. Demonstrates how in TC and BD Chaucer "extends romance motifs" to explore "the processes of the imagination, the intersections of affect and cognition, and the shaping of these by the mysterious forces outside the self . . . [and] the disruptions of extreme feeling.
- Alternative Title
- Literature and the Senses
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess
Troilus and Criseyde