Add to ORKGWhen is a dream not a dream? The Middle English convention of the ‘dream vision’ has been read by modern scholars as a genre that primarily reveals the medieval understanding of dreaming and dream theory, so that events and stories presented within a dream frame are necessarily read through that specific hermeneutic. But what might reading ‘dream visions’ without this theoretical framework do to our understanding of the text? Can removing this default mode of interpretation inspire cross-genre comparisons between narratives that present themes of courtly love? My thesis embraces this ‘genre-blind’ standpoint and traces the development of rhetorical frames through texts of the fourteenth century and into the fifteenth century. Beginning with...
Over the past half-century literary critics have frequently depicted late fourteenth-century Middle ...
The desire to understand a literary text often translates into a desire to neatly categorize meaning...
Middle English literature is intimately concerned with sleep and the spaces in which it takes place....
When is a dream not a dream? The Middle English convention of the ‘dream vision’ has been read by mo...
Dream vision is an important and well _ known medieval narrative genre in poetry . The basic fra...
Although the dream-poem was a remarkably popular, conventional and respected literary form in the Mi...
The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in England experienced an upsurge of texts that engage in som...
(print) ix, 244 p. ; 23 cmAcknowledgments ix -- Introduction 1 -- I Dream and Apocalypse 21 -- The D...
Models of medieval reading often describe a process that divorces emotion from intellect or that see...
The image of the blind Cupid is central in a number of dream-vision poems of the late fourteenth, fi...
In this thesis I investigate whether and how John Keats responds to Chaucerian dream poems in his fr...
This thesis traces the afterlife of the Romance of the Rose in fourteenth-century England. Whether i...
This dissertation examines how Middle English poets deployed the dream vision genre and the elegiac ...
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 101-110).Dreaming is a form of sleeping experience that ...
This dissertation focuses on the performative actions of the narrators in four Middle English dream ...
Over the past half-century literary critics have frequently depicted late fourteenth-century Middle ...
The desire to understand a literary text often translates into a desire to neatly categorize meaning...
Middle English literature is intimately concerned with sleep and the spaces in which it takes place....
When is a dream not a dream? The Middle English convention of the ‘dream vision’ has been read by mo...
Dream vision is an important and well _ known medieval narrative genre in poetry . The basic fra...
Although the dream-poem was a remarkably popular, conventional and respected literary form in the Mi...
The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in England experienced an upsurge of texts that engage in som...
(print) ix, 244 p. ; 23 cmAcknowledgments ix -- Introduction 1 -- I Dream and Apocalypse 21 -- The D...
Models of medieval reading often describe a process that divorces emotion from intellect or that see...
The image of the blind Cupid is central in a number of dream-vision poems of the late fourteenth, fi...
In this thesis I investigate whether and how John Keats responds to Chaucerian dream poems in his fr...
This thesis traces the afterlife of the Romance of the Rose in fourteenth-century England. Whether i...
This dissertation examines how Middle English poets deployed the dream vision genre and the elegiac ...
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 101-110).Dreaming is a form of sleeping experience that ...
This dissertation focuses on the performative actions of the narrators in four Middle English dream ...
Over the past half-century literary critics have frequently depicted late fourteenth-century Middle ...
The desire to understand a literary text often translates into a desire to neatly categorize meaning...
Middle English literature is intimately concerned with sleep and the spaces in which it takes place....