Contents:

I. Dream and Apocalypse - The Dream - as - Narrative - Event; The Apocalypse.

II. Medieval Dream Authorities - Classical Scepticism; The Encyclopedists; Select Medieval Authorities; Assessing the Evidence.

III. Origins - A Rhetoric and a Form: Augustine and Macrobius; Freedom in Parody: The Roman de la Rose; A Psychology and a Metaphysics.

IV. Structure - The Shape of the Poem; The Poem and the Readers.

V. Applications: Three Deconstructive Dream Visions - The Book of the Duches and the Discourse of Sentiment; Pearl and the Discourse of Eschatology; The Hous of Fame and the End of Lore