1st Edition
Chaucer’s Dream Visions Courtliness and Individual Identity
By Michael St John
Copyright 2000
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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Chaucer used the dream device to engage with the work of French and Italian authors and to explore the philosophical content of their poetry. His four dream visions therefore represent an important conduit through which the influence of European writers was received into English, enabling a profound transition in the way in which the 'self' was conceptualized in medieval courtly literature.... Read more
Contents: Introduction; The Book of the Duchess; The House of Fame; The Parliament of Fowls; The Legend of Good Women; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Michael St John
