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Professor Corinne Saunders' Outputs (54)

The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine: Classical to Contemporary (2021)
Book
Fuller, D., Saunders, C., & Macnaughton, J. (Eds.). (2021). The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine: Classical to Contemporary. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74443-4

This open access book studies breath and breathing in literature and culture and provides crucial insights into the history of medicine, health and the emotions, the foundations of beliefs concerning body, spirit and world, the connections between br... Read More about The Life of Breath in Literature, Culture and Medicine: Classical to Contemporary.

Visions and Voice-Hearing in Medieval and Early Modern Contexts (2020)
Book
Powell, H., & Saunders, C. (Eds.). (2021). Visions and Voice-Hearing in Medieval and Early Modern Contexts. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52659-7

This book examines how the experiences of hearing voices and seeing visions were understood within the cultural, literary, and intellectual contexts of the medieval and early modern periods. In the Middle Ages, these experiences were interpreted acco... Read More about Visions and Voice-Hearing in Medieval and Early Modern Contexts.

Reading Margery Kempe’s inner voices (2017)
Journal Article
Saunders, C., & Fernyhough, C. (2017). Reading Margery Kempe’s inner voices. postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies, 8(2), 209-217. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41280-017-0051-5

This article draws on research from the major collaborative research project Hearing the Voice, based at Durham University, to reconsider and foreground Margery Kempe’s inner voices, and hence, to return to an emphasis on inner, spiritual experience... Read More about Reading Margery Kempe’s inner voices.

Affective Reading: Chaucer, Women, and Romance (2016)
Journal Article
Saunders, C. (2016). Affective Reading: Chaucer, Women, and Romance. The Chaucer Review, 51(1), 11-30. https://doi.org/10.5325/chaucerrev.51.1.0011

Medieval thought emphasized the integration of thinking and feeling, an integration central to literary representations of mind, body, and emotion, and to the idea of reading as affective. Chaucer's romance writings are profoundly concerned with the... Read More about Affective Reading: Chaucer, Women, and Romance.

Emotions in Medieval Arthurian Literature: Body, Mind, Voice (2015)
Book
Brandsma, F., Larrington, C., & Saunders, C. (Eds.). (2015). Emotions in Medieval Arthurian Literature: Body, Mind, Voice. D.S.Brewer

Literary texts complicate our understanding of medieval emotions; they not only represent characters experiencing emotion and reaction emotionally to the behaviour of others within the text, but also evoke and play upon emotion in the audiences which... Read More about Emotions in Medieval Arthurian Literature: Body, Mind, Voice.

The Recovery of Beauty: Arts, Culture, Medicine (2015)
Book
Saunders, C., Macnaughton, J., & Fuller, D. (Eds.). (2015). The Recovery of Beauty: Arts, Culture, Medicine. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137426741

An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the complex and conflicted topic of beauty in cultural, arts and medicine, looking back through the long cultural history of beauty, and asking whether it is possible to 'recover beauty'.

The Gawain-poet and medieval romance (2010)
Book Chapter
Saunders, C. (2010). The Gawain-poet and medieval romance. In M. O'Neill (Ed.), The Cambridge History of English Poetry (26-42). Cambridge University Press

Magic and Christianity (2010)
Book Chapter
Saunders, C. (2010). Magic and Christianity. In R. Field, P. Hardman, & M. Sweeney (Eds.), Christianity and Romance in Medieval England (84-101). D. S. Brewer

Medieval Warfare (2009)
Book Chapter
Saunders, C. (2009). Medieval Warfare. In K. McLoughlin (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to War Writing (83-97). Cambridge University Press

Magic and Religion in Arthurian Romance (2009)
Book Chapter
Saunders, C. (2009). Magic and Religion in Arthurian Romance. In E. Archibald, & A. Putter (Eds.), A Companion to Arthurian Legend (201-17). Cambridge University Press

‘Sorrowful Songs: Chaucer and the Tradition of the Woman's Lament’ (2009)
Book Chapter
Saunders, C. (2009). ‘Sorrowful Songs: Chaucer and the Tradition of the Woman's Lament’. In M. E. Ruggerini (Ed.), Studi anglo-norreni in onore di John S. McKinnell. ‘He hafað sundorgecynd’ (132-148). CUEC Editrice (Cooperativa Universitaria Editrice Cagliaritana )