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Dreams, Visions, and the Rhetoric of Authority

Dreams, Visions, and the Rhetoric of Authority

Hardcover

Series: Medieval Interventions, Book 11

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1433154498
ISBN13: 9781433154492
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Published: Jul 18 2018
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

In Dreams, Visions, and the Rhetoric of Authority, John Bickley explores the ways dreams and visions in literature function as authorizing devices, both affirming and complicating a text's authority. After providing a framework for categorizing the diverse genres and modes of dream and vision texts, Bickley demonstrates how the theme of authority and strategies for textual self-authorization play out in four highly influential works: the Book of Daniel, Macrobius's Commentary on the Dream of Scipio, Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Love, and Chaucer's Hous of Fame.

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