Dreams and lovers: the sympathetic guide frame in Middle English courtly love poems

When is a dream not a dream? The Middle English convention of the ‘dream vision’ has been read by modern scholars as a genre that primarily reveals the medieval understanding of dreaming and dream theory, so that events and stories presented within a dream frame are necessarily read through that spe...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cernik, Tessa Madeleine
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/54598