DREAM READING IN ARTHUR OF LITTLE BRITAIN AND OTHER MEDIEVAL ROMANCES. THE NARRATIVE AND DISCOURSE LOGIC OF PROPHETIC DREAMS
DREAM READING IN ARTHUR OF LITTLE BRITAIN AND OTHER MEDIEVAL ROMANCES. THE NARRATIVE AND DISCOURSE LOGIC OF PROPHETIC DREAMS

Summary/Abstract: Prophetic dreams have always inflamed our imagination and stirred controversy and passionate debates. Psychology, literature, myths, and religion speak widely of dreams; prophetic ones have held a special position in the writing and reading of texts, at all times, in all geographical areas. Our paper concentrates on this topic of the prophetic dream as raised by a famous yet not very discussed French medieval text, “Arthur of Little Britain”. It is not only the symbolism or even the allegory behind the dream that concerns us, but mostly its narrative and discourse logic. Why has the author of the text (unknown to us nowadays) decided to use the dream theme in his romance?! Was it just a literary technique, or have his intentions gone further?

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