The High Medieval Dream Vision: Poetry, Philosophy, and Literary Form
- Author / Editor
- Lynch, Kathryn L.
The High Medieval Dream Vision: Poetry, Philosophy, and Literary Form
- Published
- Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1988.
- Physical Description
- xiv, 263 pp.
- Description
- Examines the "marriage of matter and form in high medieval philosophy and poetics," the "grammar of dream and vision," and vision and dreams in Alain de Lille's "De planctu naturae, Jean de Meun, Dante, and Gower. Lynch presents a model that may be useful in examining Chaucer and other writers. This study is based on Lynch's dissertation, "The Medieval Dream-Vision: A Study in Genre Structure and Meaning." University of Virginia, 1982; Dissertation Abstracts International 43 (1983): 3314A.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.