@article{0bb66482-86a5-4c71-a4b7-01566007a4ea,
author = {Joanna Gorecka-Kalita},
title = {La « laide vérité ». Le rêve de Cahus revisité},
journal = {Studia Litteraria Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis},
volume = {2018},
number = {Volume 13, Issue 1},
year = {2018},
issn = {1897-3035},
pages = {15-24},keywords = {Arthurian romance; Perlesvaus (Le Haut Livre du Graal); dream turning real; nightmare; phantasm; medieval dream theories; Macrobius; Augustine; divination},
abstract = {The aim of this paper is to propose an analysis of the Cahus’ Dream, a well known episode of the Perlesvaus, Arthurian romance from the 13th century, within the context of the medieval dream theories. Inspired mostly by Macrobius’ Commentary on the Dream of Scipio – fo­cusing on the divinatory (or deceptive/ illusory) role of dreams – as well as by Tertullian’s and Augustine’s Christian reflections on the relations between the soul and the sleeping body, these theories permit to shed a new light on the oneiric adventure of the squire. In fact, the author furnishes numerous clues which make it look as an insomnium or fantasma: a false, illusory dream, deprived of any deeper signification. Thus, unable of uncovering some hidden, symbolic meaning, the mirage paradoxically turns out to be a material, “ugly”, as the text has it, truth, blurring the border between dream and reality in a most confusing way, and setting the specific Perlesvaus tone from the very beginning of the romance.},
doi = {10.4467/20843933ST.18.002.8280},
url = {https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-litteraria-uic/article/la-laide-verite-le-reve-de-cahus-revisite}
}