Chaucerian Dream Visions and Complaints

Chaucerian Dream Visions and Complaints

Author: Dana M Symons

Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

Published: 2004-11-01

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1580444067

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On several counts, one particular collection of French lyrics made in France in the late fourteenth century, University of Pennsylvania MS 15, is the most likely repository of Chaucer's French poems. It is the largest manuscript anthology extant of fourteenth-century French lyrics in the formes fixes (balade, rondeaux, virelay, lay, and five-stanza chanson) with by far the largest number of works of unknown authorship. The known authors represented in the manuscript and the texts themselves have notable associations with England and with Chaucer. And intriguingly there are fifteen lyrics each headed by the initials Ch, very likely indications of authorship, neatly inserted between rubric and text. . . . [The] rubrics, together with other substantial manuscript evidence and the intrinsic worth of the poems, make them easily the best candidates among extant French lyrics for Chaucer's authorship, appropriate representatives of his French work. - from the Introduction


Chaucer's Dream Visions

Chaucer's Dream Visions

Author: Michael St. John

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13:

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Specialists of Chaucer and his contemporaries will be the audience for this volume on the poet's use of Aristotelian psychology, Boethius, Dante, and French court poets to create aspects of courtly identity through language and experience. St. John (English, U. of Leicester, UK) provides detailed analyses of the Book of the Duchess, House of Fame, Parliament of Fowls, and Legend of Good Women to develop his case. He shows that Chaucer's use of the dream vision can be interpreted as an exploration of individual subjectivity in a social context, an expression of Chaucer's Christian beliefs, and his awareness of the dialogue courtly society engenders. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR


Dream Visions and Other Poems

Dream Visions and Other Poems

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9780393925883

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This Norton Critical Edition presents Chaucer's four dream visions and selected shorter poems and is suitable for both beginning and advanced students.


Love Visions

Love Visions

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2006-05-25

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 0141959894

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Spanning Chaucer's working life, these four poems build on the medieval convention of 'love visions' - poems inspired by dreams, woven into rich allegories about the rituals and emotions of courtly love. In The Book of the Duchess, the most traditional of the four, the dreamer meets a widower who has loved and lost the perfect lady, and The House of Fame describes a dream journey in which the poet meets with classical divinities. Witty, lively and playful, The Parliament of Birds details an encounter with the birds of the world in the Garden of Nature as they seek to meet their mates, while The Legend of Good Women sees Chaucer being censured by the God of Love, and seeking to make amends, for writing poems that depict unfaithful women. Together, the four create a marvellously witty, lively and humane self-portrait of the poet.


The realism of dream visions

The realism of dream visions

Author: Constance B. Hieatt

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2019-01-29

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 3111342506

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Chaucer's Philosophical Visions

Chaucer's Philosophical Visions

Author: Kathryn L. Lynch

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9780859916004

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New readings of Chaucer's dream visions, demonstrating his philosophical interests and learning.


Medieval Dream-Poetry

Medieval Dream-Poetry

Author: A. C. Spearing

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1976-11-11

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 9780521211949

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This 1976 book is a study of the medieval English dream-poem set against classical and medieval visionary and religious writings.


Sleep and its spaces in Middle English literature

Sleep and its spaces in Middle English literature

Author: Megan G. Leitch

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2021-07-06

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 152615109X

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Middle English literature is intimately concerned with sleep and the spaces in which it takes place. In the medieval English imagination, sleep is an embodied and culturally determined act. It is both performed and interpreted by characters and contemporaries, subject to a particular habitus and understood through particular hermeneutic lenses. While illuminating the intersecting medical and moral discourses by which it is shaped, sleep also sheds light on subjects in favour of which it has hitherto been overlooked: what sleep can enable (dreams and dream poetry) or what it can stand in for or supersede (desire and sex). This book argues that sleep mediates thematic concerns and questions in ways that have ethical, affective and oneiric implications. At the same time, it offers important contributions to understanding different Middle English genres: romance, dream vision, drama and fabliau.