Dreams, Visions, and the Rhetoric of Authority (Medieval Interventions)

John Bickley

ISBN 10: 1433154498 / ISBN 13: 9781433154492

Published by Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dreams, Visions, and the Rhetoric of Authority (Medieval Interventions)
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1433154498
• ISBN 13: 9781433154492
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

John Bickley received his Ph.D. in humanities from Florida State University, where he was the recipient of a doctoral presidential fellowship and focused on medieval literature, medievalism, and adaptation theory. He earned his M.A. in English literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Among his scholarly works,
Bickley has published entries for Southern Writers: A New Biographical Dictionary,
co-authored an introduction and bibliographical material for the Penguin Classics edition of Joel Chandler Harris’s Nights with Uncle Remus (2003), and contributed to a casebook on Woody Allen.