Dream vision in Chaucer's "the prologue to the legend of good women"

Abstract EN

Dream vision is a literary device in which a dream is recounted for a specific purpose.

While dreams happen throughout.

the.

history.

of literature, it is.

a poetic.

genre.

in.

its.

own.

right.

and was.

popular.

in.

the Middle Ages.

This genre.

follows.

a structure.

whereby.

a narrator.

recounts his.

experience.

of falling asleep, dreaming.

and waking.

The dream, which forms the.

subject of the poem, is prompted.

by events.

in his.

waking life that are referred.

to early in.

the poem.

The aim of this research is to examine dream vision as an essential literary genre in Chaucer's The Prologue to the Legend of Good Women and the way he included certain new.

elements.

to come.

up with a type.

which is.

his own.

This.

research is designed.

to increase.

our understanding.

of Chaucer's.

use of dream vision first by inserting him into the context of the.

dream.

tradition, and then by illustrating.

his own contribution.

to dream.

literature.

It also.

sheds light on the.

modern approach to this genre which sees.

it as a visual elaborate form with a huge potential.

for creation.

of expensiveness.

rather than a crude or naïve form.

of writing