Dreams, Visions, and the Rhetoric of Authority
| By: | John Bickley |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang |
| Print ISBN: | 9781433154492 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781433154508 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2018 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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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.