McNamara Rebecca F
Lit Med. 2015 Fall;33(2):258-78. doi: 10.1353/lm.2015.0018.
Geoffrey Chaucer frequently depicts the emotions of his characters via the outward physical signs of the body, and he often does so using a discourse that draws on Galenic theories. A striking example of Chaucer's medicalized descriptions of emotion is his adaptation of the suicidal impulse associated with lovesickness. Chaucer reconstructs this motif in "The Knight's Tale" and The Book of the Duchess by altering his sources (Boccaccio, and Froissart and Machaut) to anatomize the emotional body of the suffering knight. Through the medicalized language of bodily health describing emotional upheavals, other characters and the reader are prompted to feel with and begin to understand and appropriately respond to the suffering individual. This reading shows Chaucer using moments of embodied emotional examination to teach his audience how to read, interpret, and respond to literature.
杰弗里·乔叟经常通过身体的外在体征来描绘其笔下人物的情感，而且他常常借助借鉴盖伦理论的话语来做到这一点。乔叟对情感进行医学化描述的一个显著例子，是他对与相思病相关的自杀冲动的改编。乔叟在《骑士的故事》和《公爵夫人之书》中重构了这一主题，他改变了其素材来源（薄伽丘、弗鲁瓦萨尔和马肖），以剖析饱受折磨的骑士的情感身体。通过用身体健康的医学化语言来描述情感动荡，其他人物以及读者被促使去感同身受，并开始理解并恰当地回应这位受苦的个体。这种解读表明，乔叟利用身体情感审视的时刻来教导他的读者如何阅读、阐释和回应文学作品。
