The Dream and the Text: Essays on Literature and Language (Dream Studies) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791413624 ISBN 13: 9780791413623

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1993

Synopsis

This book partakes of a long tradition of dream interpretation, but, at the same time, is unique in its cross-cultural and interdisciplinary methods and in its mix of theoretical and analytical approaches. It includes a great chronological and geographical range, from ancient Sumeria to eighteenth-century China; medieval Hispanic dream poetry to Italian Renaissance dream theory; Shakespeare to Nerval; and from Dostoevsky, through Emily Brontė, to Henry James. Rupprecht also incorporates various critical orientations including archetypal, comparative, feminist, historicist, linguistic, postmodern, psychoanalytic, religious, reader response, and self-psychology.

About this title

About the Author

Carol Schreier Rupprecht is Professor of Comparative Literature at Hamilton College.

Review

“The book offers wonderful and important commentary about the interface between dreams and texts of various sorts, about how they can inform each other, and about mutual shaping of dreams and culture.” ― Johanna M. King, California State University, Chico

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0791413624
• ISBN 13: 9780791413623
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 325
• Editor: Rupprecht Carol Schreier