Author: J. Stephen Russell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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Author: A. C. Spearing
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521211949
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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This 1976 book is a study of the medieval English dream-poem set against classical and medieval visionary and religious writings.

Author: Kathryn Lynch
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 080476641X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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In the High Middle Ages, the dream narrative was an enormously popular and influential form. Along with the romance, it was perhaps the genre of the age. It has come down to us in such classics twelfth to fourteenth-century classics as The Divine Comedy, the Romance of the Rose, Piers Plowman, Chaucer's early poetry, and the works of Guillaume de Machaut. This book redefines the dream vision by attending to its role in philosophical debate of the time, a conservative role in defense of the high medieval synthesis of reason and revelation. Lynch shows how the epistemological basis of this synthesis and the theories of visions that emerged from it drew on Arabic commentaries of Aristotle. These theories informed poetic visions modeled on Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, a work she discusses in detail before turning to Alain de Lille, Jean de Meun, and Dante. A final section, on John Gower's Confessio Amantis shows how fourteenth and fifteenth-century writers extended and finally moved beyond the conventional form of the dream vision.

Author: Michael St. John
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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Specialists of Chaucer and his contemporaries will be the audience for this volume on the poet's use of Aristotelian psychology, Boethius, Dante, and French court poets to create aspects of courtly identity through language and experience. St. John (English, U. of Leicester, UK) provides detailed analyses of the Book of the Duchess, House of Fame, Parliament of Fowls, and Legend of Good Women to develop his case. He shows that Chaucer's use of the dream vision can be interpreted as an exploration of individual subjectivity in a social context, an expression of Chaucer's Christian beliefs, and his awareness of the dialogue courtly society engenders. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Author: Constance B. Hieatt
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111342506
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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No detailed description available for "The realism of dream visions".

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: SMK Books
ISBN: 9781515428534
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9780393925883
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 396

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This Norton Critical Edition presents Chaucer's four dream visions and selected shorter poems and is suitable for both beginning and advanced students.

Author: Kylie M. Murray
Publisher: British Academy Monographs
ISBN: 9780197266809
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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This book covers dreams and visions in prose, poetry, Scots, Latin, and English, plus works that do not explicitly contain dreams or visions alongside those that do. It shows how Scotland made its own dream-vision tradition which expressed distinctive Scottish agendas and identities.

Author: Julia Boffey
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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"The poems are in lightly modernized spelling and accompanied by glosses, explanatory notes, and textual commentary. Each has its own introduction and recommendations for further reading, and a general introduction discusses the significance of the dream form, its importance for Middle English writers, and the extraordinary variety of directions in which it was developed by fifteenth-century poets."--Jacket.

Author: Marjorie Noel How
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dreams
Languages : en
Pages : 126

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