Chaucer's Dream Visions : Courtliness and Individual Identity
- Author / Editor
- St. John, Michael.
Chaucer's Dream Visions : Courtliness and Individual Identity
- Published
- Aldershot : Ashgate, 2000.
- Physical Description
- 226 pp.
- Description
- Examines the philosophical content of Chaucer's dream visions--the interplay between the soul and its courtly context--arguing that in Chaucer's world, the ideal of courtesy rather than any explicitly spiritual principle holds together a fictive community. BD highlights the moral dilemmas of fin amor viewed from a spiritual perspective. The avian parliament in PF offers a political ideal as an enfranchised and socially beneficial courtly desire. In HF, "commune profit" replaces "singuler profit" through the protocols of courtliness. LGW presents two aspects of courtliness: a collective body of traditions and the promotion of counsel and reason, stimulating thought about fin amor.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess.
- Parliament of Fowls.
- House of Fame.
- Legend of Good Women.