English dream vision: anatomy of a form

(print) ix, 244 p. ; 23 cmAcknowledgments ix -- Introduction 1 -- I Dream and Apocalypse 21 -- The Dream-as-Narrative-Event 23 -- The Apocalypse 39 -- II Medieval Dream Authorities 50 -- Classical Scepticism 51 -- The Encyclopedists 58 -- Select Medieval Authorities 63 -- Assessing the Evidence 74 -- III Origins 82 -- A Rhetoric and a Form : Augustine and Macrobius 84 -- Freedom in Parody : The Roman de la Rose 102 -- A Psychology and a Metaphysics : Nominalism 109 -- IV Structure 115 -- The Shape of the Poem 115 -- The Poem and the Readers 130 -- V Applications : Three Deconstructive Dream Visions 139 -- The Book of the Duchess and the Discourse of Sentiment 142 -- Pearl and the Discourse of Eschatology 159 -- The Hous of Fame and the End of Lore 174 -- Epilogue : "It was no dreme : I lay brode waking" 195 -- Notes 205 -- Bibliography 227 -- Index 23