Narrative Voice in Chaucer's Dream Visions

Author / Editor
Robinson, Sharon Pattyson.

Title
Narrative Voice in Chaucer's Dream Visions

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 37 (1977): 4375A-76A.

Description
A reading of Chaucer's dream visions as a genre reveal a controlling tension between the narrator's awareness of the demands of Christian doctrine and his human compassion for those enduring the rigors of life on earth. He is sympathetic to human frailty and concerned with his own religious obligations.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.