Knowledge, Belief, and Lack of Agency: The Dreams of Geoffrey, Troilus, Criseyde, and Chauntecleer
- Author / Editor
- Hum, Sue.
Knowledge, Belief, and Lack of Agency: The Dreams of Geoffrey, Troilus, Criseyde, and Chauntecleer
- Published
- Style 31 (1997): 500-522.
- Description
- Dreams in Chaucer function as authoritative texts within power structures. In PF, the systems represented by Affrycan and Nature protect authoritative knowledge and devalue individual experience. In TC, because knowledge and belief are interactive, the protagonists are complicit in their obedience to dreams, while Pandarus's subversive challenge finally reinforces dominant power. In NPT, Pertelote more overtly questions authoritative discourse.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Parliament of Fowls.
- Troilus and Criseyde.
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.