Dreams in Place

Author / Editor
Hacking, Ian.

Title
Dreams in Place

Published
Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 59 : 245-60, 2001.

Description
Hacking describes cultural assumptions about dreams in Western tradition (biblical, Cartesian, Freudian, etc.), noting especially dreams' presumed separation from "reality" and the complexities of their relationships with narrative. He briefly considers the concern with "philosophical speculation" in Chaucer's dream poems and the reciprocity of dreaming and fiction-making in these poems.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.