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Barr, Jessica G.

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The limits of revelation: Visionary knowing and the medieval dream vision.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The limits of revelation: Visionary knowing and the medieval dream vision./
Author:	Barr, Jessica G.
Description:	297 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Elizabeth J. Bryan.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-07A.
Subject:	Literature, Comparative. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3271947
ISBN:	9780549118213

The limits of revelation: Visionary knowing and the medieval dream vision.
Barr, Jessica G.

The limits of revelation: Visionary knowing and the medieval dream vision. - 297 p.

Adviser: Elizabeth J. Bryan.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brown University, 2007.

This dissertation examines the epistemology of the vision in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century European literature. Focusing on the process of "visionary knowing"---how knowledge is acquired in a vision, how that knowledge is understood or interpreted, and how it is communicated to a wider audience---I consider the use of the vision as an epistemological tool both in literary dream vision narratives and in mystical texts that purport to describe authentic visions of the divine. I argue that both genres arise out of the same basic presumptions about visionary experience and the epistemological value of the vision. I compare "authentic" visionary texts and several Continental dream visions, in which the vision successfully conveys knowledge, to three fourteenth-century English dream visions---Pearl, Piers Plowman, and The House of Fame---in which the possibility of acquiring visionary knowledge is uncertain at best. Contrary to what scholars have often assumed and visionaries themselves have asserted, I argue, first, that the vision was not always seen as a transparent means of conveying knowledge to its recipient, and, second, that the reception of a vision was construed as an active experience, requiring the active engagement of the visionary or dreamer's cognitive and volitional faculties in order to succeed. This thesis runs counter to common assumptions regarding the visionary's essentially passive role, and illuminates some of the interpretive problems associated with dream vision poems such as Pearl and Piers Plowman . Ultimately I argue for a more nuanced view of vision literature, in which a variety of cognitive faculties and epistemological modes are often depicted as necessary for the recipient to grasp and comprehend the vision's message.

ISBN: 9780549118213Subjects--Topical Terms:

530051
Literature, Comparative.

The limits of revelation: Visionary knowing and the medieval dream vision.
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