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The English Dream Vision
Anatomy of a Form
J. Stephen Russell
Frontmatter, Contents, and Acknowledgments
I: Dream and Apocalypse
The Dream-as-Narrative-Event
The Apocalypse
II: Medieval Dream Authorities
Classical Scepticism
The Encyclopedists
Select Medieval Authorities
Assessing the Evidence
III: Origins
A Rhetoric and a Form: Augustine and Macrobius
Freedom in Parody: The Roman de la Rose
A Psychology and a Metaphysics: Nominalism
IV: Structure
The Shape of the Poem
The Poem and the Readers
V: Applications: Three Deconstructive Dream Visions
The Book of the Duchess and the Discourse of Sentiment
Pearl and the Discourse of Eschatology
The _Hous of Fame_and the End of Lore
Epilogue: “It was no dreme: I lay brode waking”
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