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Old English verse and prose depict the human mind as a corporeal entity located in the chest cavity, susceptible to spatial and thermal changes corresponding to the psychological states: it was thought that emotions such as rage, grief, and yearning could cause the contents of the chest to grow warm, boil, or be constricted by pressure. While readers usually assume the metaphorical nature of such literary images, Leslie Lockett, in Anglo-Saxon Psychologies in the Vernacular and Latin Traditions,

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Author

Leslie Lockett

Publisher

University of Toronto Press; University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781487516499

Category

literary studies

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Psychology, History

Rating

4.5 / 5 (6 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14