TY  - BOOK
AU  - John Bickley
PY  - 2018
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2376-2683
SN  - 9781433154508
TI  - Dreams, Visions, and the Rhetoric of Authority
DO  - 10.3726/b13332
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1056847
N2  - 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.
LA  - English
ER  -