The narratives are based around the notion of loss and the spiritual and physical affects of that loss on those that mourn it. ... Pearl, like Solaris, is often debated as being a "consolation," a "primarily didactic" work within the dream vision genre that adapts certain narrative conventions of that genre to make the work function as an allegory (Prior 21). Ultimately, the exact kind of dream vision each work represents is not as important as how they both utilize conventions of the dream vision and present highly literary narratives that do nothing for show, everything for effect (Ebert)....

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