The Realism of Dream Visions: The Poetic Exploitation of the Dream Experience in Chaucer and His Contemporaries.
- Author / Editor
- Hieatt, Constance B.
The Realism of Dream Visions: The Poetic Exploitation of the Dream Experience in Chaucer and His Contemporaries.
- Published
- The Hague: Mouton & Co., 1967.
- Physical Description
- 117 pp.
- Series
- De Proprietatibus Literarum,
- Description
- Explores the nature and function of dream vision in late-medieval English literature, focusing on BD, HF, PF, LGWP, "Pearl" and "Piers Plowman," and commenting on other works. Considers this poetry in light of post-Freudian psychology as well as medieval philosophy, symbolism, and allegory, and emphasizes the unifying function of "dream-work" through association and transformation. Compares BD and "Pearl" as "realistic" dream elegies and examines how Chaucer's other dream poems use the "universal human experience" of dream as a structural device. Also comments on dreams in TC and CT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess
House of Fame
Parliament of Fowls
Legend of Good Women
Troilus and Criseyde
Canterbury Tales--General