![]() We humans suffer from a libido sciendi that is both our joy and our tribulation. We need to anchor our momentary experience in some system, larger or more long-lasting than our mere sensations or emotions. It is not enough for us humans just to experience something. They start as experiences, but at a certain moment, they become something to be analyzed. I still can't, and I still want to.ĭreams are like that. There was always that peculiar moment just before it changed, when I could see it was a six-inch band, almost cut through, and I would know it was going to lurch into something altogether different, but I could never understand why. Then, if I cut down the center of the strip, around the ring, when the scissors reached the beginning of the cut, blip! the small band would suddenly become a twelve-inch ring with three half twists in it. I would form the band into a six-inch ring with a half twist in it. When I was a boy, I used to make Möbius strips out of the bands that the laundry put around my father's shirts. Second, as in my words "something" and "somewhere," dreams are an enigma to be explained. Something irrupts from somewhere, and we see visions and hear sounds. Dreams are a microcosm of all human experience in that they exist in two opposed modes. These chapters continually balance on an intellectual tightrope between the two extremes of dreams. I want to show you why this whole topic of dreams and literature is so curiously involved in perplexities. Carol Schreier Rupprecht and Kelly Bulkley do that expertly in their opening chapter. I do not want to "introduce" these chapters by telling you how they interrelate in this book. Or should I say in literature? Or of? Or about? Or for literature? Whichever, you are about to consider one of the more paradoxical questions in literature-and-psychology, the relation of literature to dreams and vice versa. Holland You are looking at a book on dreams and literature. Nicholas LeeįOREWORD: THE LITERARITY OF DREAMS, THE DREAMINESS OF LITERATURE Norman N. Variations of the Prophetic Dream in Modern Russian Literature C. Xerxes and Alexander: Dreams of America in Claramonte's El nuevo rey Gallinato Frederick A. The Marqués de Santillana: Master Dreamer Harriet Goldbergġ4. A Challenge to Apollonian Mastery: A New Reading of Henry James's "Most Appalling Yet Most Admirable" Nightmare Suzi Naiburg Self and Self-validation in a Stage Character: A Shakespearean Use of Dream Joseph Westlundġ2. The Evil Dreams of Gilgamesh: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Dreams in Mythological Texts Kelly Bulkleyġ1. Part III A Dreamer and a Text: Case Studies 9. Dreaming of Death: Love and Money in The Merchant of Venice Kay Stockholder Divinity, Insanity, Creativity: A Renaissance Contribution to the History and Theory of Dream/Text(s) Carol Schreier RupprechtĨ. Talmudic Dream Interpretation, Freudian Ambivalence, Deconstruction Ken Friedenħ. Dreams, Divination, and Statecraft: The Politics of Dreams in Early Chinese History and Literature John Brennan 6. Part II Historical, Political, Cultural, and Social Aspects 5. In Defense of Nightmares: Clinical and Literary Cases Jane White-Lewis Real Dreams, Literary Dreams, and the Fantastic in Literature Laurence M. Bizarreness in Dreams and Other Fictions Bert O. Reading Yourself to Sleep: Dreams in/and/as Texts Carol Schreier Rupprecht and Kelly Bulkley cm.(SUNY Series in dream studies) Includes bibliographical references. Semerad Marketing by Fran Keneston Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The Dream and the text: essays on literature and language / Carol Schreier Rupprecht, editor. For information, address State University of New York Press, State University Plaza, Albany, N.Y., 12246 Production by Marilyn P. Published by State University of New York Press, Albany © 1993 State University of New York All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. The Dream and the Text Essays on Literature and Language edited by Carol Schreier Rupprecht State University of New York Press The Dream and the Text : Essays On Literature and Language SUNY Series in Dream Studies Rupprecht, Carol Schreier State University of New York Press 0791413624 9780791413623 9780585090191 English Dreams in literature, Dreams. Title : author publisher isbn10 | asin print isbn13 ebook isbn13 language subject publication date lcc ddc subject
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |