A. C. Spearing

Medieval Dream-Poetry

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 352g
• ISBN-13: 9780521290692
• ISBN-10: 0521290694
• Artikelnr.: 31198267

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part I. Dreams and Visions: 1. The nature of dream-poetry
2. Spiritual adventure
3. Macrobious on Scipio's dream
4. Scriptural and Christian visions
5. Visions of place
5. Doctrinal visions
6. The Roman de la Rose: Guillaume de Lorris
7. The Roman de la Rose: Jean de Meun
8. Fourteenth-century dream poems
Part II. Chaucer: 1. The Book of the Duchess
2. The House of Fame
3. The Parliament of Fowls
4. The Prologue to The Legend of Good Women
Part III. The Alliterative Tradition: 1. Pearl
2. The Piers Plowman tradition: Winner and Waster
3. The Parliament of the Three Ages
4. Piers Plowman: the A-text
5. Piers Plowman: the B-revision
6. Langland's followers: Mum and the Sothsegger
7. Death and Life
Part IV. The Chaucerian Tradition: 1. Lydgate: The Temple of Glass
2. Clanvowe: The Cuckoo and the Nightingale
3. The Kingis Quair
4. Scottish dream-prologues
5. Dunbar
6. Skelton: the Bowge of Court
Douglas: The Palice of Honour
7. Skelton: The Garland of Laurel
Notes
Booklist
Index.