Listening to Dreams: Sound in Chaucer's Dream Vision Poetry.
- Author / Editor
- Rudman, Charlotte.
Listening to Dreams: Sound in Chaucer's Dream Vision Poetry.
- Published
- Ph.D. dissertation (King’s College London, 2022), Dissertation Abstracts International 84.10. Abstract available at https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en
/studentTheses/listening-to-dreams (accessed February 1, 2025).
- Description
- Argues "that Chaucer developed his own theory of sound in his dream vision poetry." His theory--that sound travels and transforms rather than dissipates--was adapted from his scientific learning," particularly Boethius's "De institutione musica." Discusses BD, PF, and HF.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Book of the Duchess
Parliament of Fowls
House of Fame