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dream vision
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dream vision
n.
A narrative poem, especially in medieval literature, in which the main character falls asleep and experiences events having allegorical, didactic, or moral significance.
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He explains that the dream-vision scenes include both divine irruption into human experience and human perception of divine activity, and so mark an intersection between Luke's theology and anthropology.
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Instead, he wished to restore the beauty, the sensuality, and, above all, the humanity to Bottom in what is portrayed as an elevating moment, during which the weaver enters a new sphere of being through his dream-vision experience of love.
"Where is that worthless dreamer?" Bottom's fantastic redemption in ... by Riga, Frank P. / Mythlore
In one manuscript of the 1440s, Chaucer's dream-vision poems are seen to reflect the desire of its makers to reimagine a "gallant" world of courtly taste and royal patronage.
Chaucer and His Readers: Imagining the Author in Late Medieval England by Welsh, Andrew / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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