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THE DREAM IN THE LITERATURE OF THE MIDDLE AGES

 

 Analyzing the selected texts will enable the students to recognize different functions of the motive of the dream in the French literature of the XIIth and XIIIth centuries, i.e.: the poetic function - the symbolic dream (Tristan et Yseut) and the allegoric dream (Le Roman de la Rose) ;the stylistic function : the  obscene  dream (in the fabliaux) ; the narrative function: the  warning dream  (Chanson de Roland) vs.  the compensatory dream (Cligès).

Credit: assiduity, speech, composition.

 

 

Selected bibliography:

Le Goff J. 1985, , « Le christianisme et les rêves », [w:] L`imaginaire médiéval, Paris,

monographies, such as

  Breat  H., 1975, Le songe dans les chanson de geste au XIIe s., Gent, 

 as well as medieval French texts.



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