Dreams, Visions, and the Rhetoric of Authority

von John Bickley

130 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Medieval Interventions
• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Antike, klassische und mittelalterliche Texte
• ISBN: 9781433154492
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 18.07.2018
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York