%0 Book
%A John Bickley
%D 2018
%C New York, United States of America
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 2376-2683
%@ 9781433154508
%T Dreams, Visions, and the Rhetoric of Authority
%R 10.3726/b13332
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1056847
%X 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.
%G English