乔叟的梦幻诗和欧洲中世纪梦幻文学传统

Chaucer’s Dream Poetry and the Medieval Tradition of Dream Vision

乔叟的早期诗作多数采用了梦幻框架结构,并且在另外几部作品的叙事过程中也时常借用梦境以推动故事情节或深化主题。对乔叟的梦幻诗和欧洲中世纪梦幻文学传统的研究是乔叟研究中不可忽视的一个重要方面。本文追溯了中世纪的梦幻文学传统,探讨了乔叟对这一文学模式的思考和借鉴,并通过对文本的细读,分析了乔叟的梦幻诗对梦幻文学传统的继承和超越。

Chaucer adopts dream vision as the frame of most of his early poems, and in his other works he also makes use of dreams to develop his narrative. The present paper studies the medieval tradition of dream vision, discusses the development of Chaucer as a writer within and against such a tradition. By a close reading of Chaucer's dream poetry, this author points out that Chaucer becomes the poet as he was because he, while taking advantage of the tradition, also transcends the convention.