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In this course, we will read late medieval and early modern dream visions with a view to how they model cognitive processes: perception/imagination, evaluation, and memory. At the beginning of the semester, we will review classical and medieval dream theories -- i.e. common assumptions about the origins and meanings of dreams -- and how the latter are contextualized in faculty psychology. Subsequently, we will read medieval and early modern dream visions, starting chronologically with Geoffrey Chaucer's Book of the Duchess, House of Fame, and the Legend of Good Women, moving on towards fifteenth- and sixteenth-century dream visions, such as John Lydgate's Temple of Glass, James I of Scotland's Kingis Quair, Charles of Orleans's Love's Renewal, the Assembly of Ladies, and John Skelton's The Bouge of Court. Interested students should contact me by
1 April 2015 @ wolfram.keller@staff.hu-berlin.de. |
