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Word, Image, and Vision: Cardiosensory Sight and Cognition in the Work of the Pearl-poet

dc.contributor.authorHutka, Adam
dc.contributor.copyright-releaseNot Applicableen_US
dc.contributor.degreeDoctor of Philosophyen_US
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Englishen_US
dc.contributor.ethics-approvalNot Applicableen_US
dc.contributor.external-examinerSuzanne Akbarien_US
dc.contributor.graduate-coordinatorLyn Bennetten_US
dc.contributor.manuscriptsNot Applicableen_US
dc.contributor.thesis-readerKathleen Cawseyen_US
dc.contributor.thesis-readerElizabeth Edwardsen_US
dc.contributor.thesis-readerWilliam Barkeren_US
dc.contributor.thesis-supervisorMelissa Furrowen_US
dc.date.accessioned2017-02-02T18:55:47Z
dc.date.available2017-02-02T18:55:47Z
dc.date.defence2015-10-22
dc.date.issued2017-02-02T18:55:47Z
dc.description.abstractThis thesis examines vision and visuality in the poems of MS. British Library Cotton Nero A.x art. 3 (Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight). These Middle English poems of the late fourteenth century, commonly attributed to a single unknown author (the Pearl-poet), have long been admired for their evocative visual elements. The present study argues that visuality and vision are essential to earthly contemplation of God and that the Pearl-poet’s representation of visual perception ultimately endorses the utility of material signs and the material body itself. The argument incorporates the medieval discourses of optical science, faculty psychology, and mystical theology to argue that the Pearl-poet employs vision as a mode of spiritual communion. Imagining the heart as the essential organ of sense perception, the poet represents the human body as a medium for recognizing and an index for understanding the signs of spirit suffusing the material world.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10222/72670
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectMiddle Agesen_US
dc.subjectVisionen_US
dc.subjectOpticsen_US
dc.subjectPerspectivaen_US
dc.subjectTheologyen_US
dc.subjectCognitionen_US
dc.subjectPearl-poeten_US
dc.subjectGawain-poeten_US
dc.subjectSir Gawain and the Green Knighten_US
dc.subjectCleannessen_US
dc.subjectPatienceen_US
dc.subjectPearlen_US
dc.subjectGawain (Legendary character)--Poetry.
dc.subjectBritish Library. Manuscript. Cotton Nero A. x.
dc.titleWord, Image, and Vision: Cardiosensory Sight and Cognition in the Work of the Pearl-poeten_US

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