Sleep and the Transformation of Sense in Late Medieval Literature.
- Author / Editor
- Raby, Michael.
Sleep and the Transformation of Sense in Late Medieval Literature.
- Published
- Studies in the Age of Chaucer 39 (2017): 191-224.
- Description
- Explores the permeable boundary between waking and sleep, sensation and dream, in Dante's "Commedia," TC, and Machaut's "Fontaine amoureuse." each sleep-scene drawing on Ovidian tales of transformation. Comments on Chaucer's adaptation in HF of Dante's golden eagle, and examines Pandarus's awakening in TC to the sound of a swallow/Procne, suggesting that the indeterminate nature of the waking reenacts Philomela's silence.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Troilus and Criseyde
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