Abstract
Gower gets a brief discussion (pp. 89-90) in this survey of nearly 200 examples (short and long) of framing fictions in Middle English. CA is listed with other dream-vision analogues, poems which contain the structural features of dream visions but in which no break in consciousness occurs. The preliminaries in Book 1 of CA constitute an adventure motif that is conventional in such poems, but unlike the shorter examples, the framing fiction is not clearly marked off from the core of Amans' dialogue with Genius. Gower's manipulation of convention is also evident in his use of the framing fiction in the third-person tale of Rosiphelee. [PN. Copyright The John Gower Society. JGN 9.1]
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