Ibragimova Karina Rashitovna – Candidate in Philology, Lecturer at the Department of Foreign Literatures, Faculty of Philology, Lomonosov Moscow State University; ORCID: 0000-0002-9639-3261
The article is devoted to the consideration of the topos of a book in the works of English and Scottish poets of the late Middle Ages – Geoffrey Chaucer and his followers James I and William Dunbar. The focus is on the genre of the allegorical courtly dream vision, where the topos of a book plays an important role. The book introduces references to other literary works to the text of the poem and functions as a special guide into the world of vision for the visionary. The use of the topos of a book brings in other important features of dream vision poems in their Chaucerian version: the expansion of the part dedicated to the earthly existence of the character, the connection of his vision with the idea of creativity. The Chaucerians James I and William Dunbar retain all these traits and add to them the desire to equal not only the great poets of the past, but also their inspiration, Chaucer.
Geoffrey Chaucer; James I of Scotland; William Dunbar; dream vision; book.