Personification and Embodied Emotional Practice in Middle English Literature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12879790 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mary C Flannery (University of Lausanne, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 351-361 |
| Publication date | 2016-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Literature Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1741-4113 • E-ISSN: 1741-4113 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/lic3.12316 |
| OpenAlex | W2462259658 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 22 |
A pressing question facing literary scholars who are working on emotion is that of what literary analysis and literary history can bring to the history of emotions. While disciplines such as psychology, anthropology, linguistics and various branches of history have made notable contributions to the study of emotions past and present, precisely how imaginative literature might fit into emotion studies remains unclear. This essay suggests that attention to the tropes and forms with which literature performs its imagining may be the best way to incorporate literature into the history of emotions. I focus in particular on how personification in Middle English texts translates abstract emotions into bodily terms in order to represent them as embodied phenomena and to elicit emotional responses. By examining the personification of emotions in these texts, we can see how imaginative literature might both shape and constitute emotional practice
Art · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Focus (optics · History of literature · Linguistics · Literature · History of Emotions Research · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy · Psychology · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
The Poetics of Personification
The Navigation of Feeling
What is Meant by Calling Emotions Basic
Gender and Personification in Piers Plowman
The Art of Reading Medieval Personification-Allegory
The Bowge of Courte and the Afterlives of Allegory
Essays and Explorations
The History of Emotions
Current Emotion Research in the Language Sciences
The psychology of emotion and study of the medieval period
Are Emotions a Kind of Practice (And Is That What Makes Them Have a History)? A Bourdieuian Approach to Understanding Emotion
Unnatural Emotions
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,63 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2024 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |