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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"dream vision"”.
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Draumkvedet and the Medieval English Dream Vision: A Study of Genre
The Medieval English dream vision evidence influences from a variety of earlier vision literature, notably the apocalyptic vision and narrative dream. Philosophical visions by Plato, Cicero and Boethius, and Christian revelations of John and Paul contain traits that found their way into the dream …
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Receiving "The true name" : reading Lilith as a mystical dream-vision.
… with its strange symbolism and seemingly chaotic dreams. One's comprehension of the novel ultimately hinges upon the right interpretation of dreams. Those who ignore or gloss over the dream sequence as a mere plot device completely miss the point of the novel, while those who view the chaotic …
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“Precios perle wythouten spotte”: Accepting the Unknowable in Pearl
… British Library, Cotton MS Nero A.x. This dream vision, narrated by a grieving father, tells the story of his journey to Paradise, where he encounters his infant daughter, now older, regal, and wise, proffering admonishments with the authority of God to her tearful father. meeting with her …
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"If We Shadows Have Offended": Reflections of Social Attitudes Toward Reform in Late Medieval and Reformation Dream Visions
14th-century dream visions feature intensely personal narrators with attitudes and desires, who agonize over difficult situations, who make errors in judgment. Deeply characterized narrators contribute thematically to these poems, which explore personal subjects like grief and faith. By the 16th …
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Ekphrastic Medieval Visions: A New Discussion in Ekphrasis and Interarts Theory
"Ekphrastic Medieval Visions: A New Discussion in Ekphrasis and Interarts Theory" argues that the dream-vision and mystical-vision texts of the high and late Middle Ages are ekphrastic works. With their inclusion within the purview of criticism and theories of ekphrasis, new formal qualities of the …
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The theology of The Dream of The Rood
The Dream of the Rood, the first dream-vision poem in English, is acclaimed as one of the finest renderings in Christian literature. The purpose of this paper is to examine the work within the context of the pagan concepts of the cult of the cross and tree veneration to prove that the work …
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"And everych cried 'What thing is that?'" : a reading of Chaucer's House of fame
… of the choice of medium. The poem is a "dream vision", a genre which took the contentious truth-claims and unsettled status of dreams, and used it as the foundation for a poetics which concentrated on the relation of the conscious subject to truth. This is investigated in an extended …
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Boethian Colorings in Geoffrey Chaucer's Earlier Poetry: The Book of the Duchess, The Parliament of Fowls and The House of Fame
… Using the convention of the frame tale with the dream vision in these three poems allows for the narrator to be brought to an understanding in each of these texts, strongly suggesting that this approach is something that Chaucer came across in Boethius's The Consolation of Philosophy. To merely …
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THE 'ENTENTE' OF THE NARRATOR: A POET SPEAKS TO HIS AUDIENCE IN CHAUCER'S VERSIONS OF THE DIDO AND AENEAS LEGEND
… with Geoffrey Chaucer. As "Geffrey" is a dreamer, attention next centers on the question of how the dream vision frame itself might have prepared a listener for the idea of personal authorship in a poetic work. Textual analysis of "Geffrey's" versions of the Dido and Aeneas legend follows, …
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Reading dreams : an audience-critical approach to the dreams in the Gospel of Matthew.
This dissertation seeks to read the dreams in the Gospel of Matthew (1:18b-25; 2:12, 13-15, 19-21, 22; 27:19) as the authorial audience. This approach requires an understanding of the social and literary character of dreams in the Greco-Roman world. Chapter Two describes the social function of …
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Mourning, Melancholia, and Masculinity in Medieval Literature
… de Troyes' Yvain to the fifteenth century dream vision/consolatio Pearl. A focused study of how bereavement is represented through this pattern gains us a deeper understanding of medieval conceptions of emotional expression and their connections to gender and status. In other words, this …
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Obscurity and the mythic quest for shape: a discussion and explication of Dylan Thomas' Altarwise by Owl-light
… is like experiencing a confused nightmare or dream vision, for the poem is curiously primitive and myth-like. Through the confusion of rioting images, however, Thomas' desire for structure and meaning emerges, Thomas repeatedly employs the term "shape" in the sonnets in a context of …
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Sensory Perception in Dante's Dreams and Visions
My thesis analyses Dante’s dreams and visions in the Vita nuova and the Commedia from a sensory-cognitive point of view, examining them as moments of privileged perception, when the sensations described appear not to correspond to perceptions necessitated by immediate external surroundings. While …
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Learning to Love
… mourns the death of his infant daughter. In a dream vision, his daughter appears to him as a Pearl Maiden, one of the 144,000 virgins from the Book of Revelations. In an inversion of the usual parent-child relationship, the Pearl Maiden teaches the jeweler to recognize that their interlocking …
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A Study of the Language Shifts in the Book of Daniel : A Comparative Narrative Analysis of Daniel 1 and 2, 7 and 8
… and reconfigured (primarily through the use of a dream/vision) to create a specific narrative emphasis. Second, the narrative emphases identified in Daniel 2 and 8 are repeated in the subsequent chapters, namely Daniel 3-7 in Aramaic and Daniel 9-12 in Hebrew. This repetition creates a complex …