On Affliction and Reading, Weeping and Argument
Chaucer's Lachrymose Troilus in Context
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4370866 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mary Carruthers (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 93 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-21 |
| Publication date | 2006-02-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Representations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0734-6018 • E-ISSN: 1533-855X |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/rep.2006.93.1.1 |
| OpenAlex | W2122563125 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
This essay explores a fundamental connection among perception, sensation, and rational process in a selection of works within the long monastic tradition known as desert spirituality. Its focus is the embedding of intellectual judgment within bodily experience, expressed as a connection of affliction to reading andweeping to rational argument. Monastic spirituality cultivated intense sensation as an instrument of adequate judgment, and tears as purgative agents, having the potential to clear thought, not just to hinder it
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Perception · Spirituality · History · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2024 (19) |
| Highly cited | No |