Oxford Book of Dreams

Zusatztext Anthologies which transcend themselves and can stand as organic books making serious statements about life [are] very rare! but Stephen Brook's Oxford Book of Dreams is of their number. Informationen zum Autor Stephen Brook has worked for publishers in both England and the United States, and is now a full-time writer. His books include New York Days, New York Nights, Honky-tonk Gelato: Travels Through Texas, and The Dordogne. Klappentext Dreams have been a source of delight and terror for as long as people have kept records of their thought. Whether dreams are the key to the unconscious, as Freud proposed, or a way of wiping clean the mental slate, as Dr. Francis Crick's theory suggests, they have filled the pages of numerous diaries and been an integral part of literary masterworks such as The Divine Comedy and Finnegan's Wake. In this rich anthology, Stephen Brook has collected hundreds of dreams recorded by authors, poets, psychologists, and everyday dreamers since pre-Christian days. Ranging from Artemidorus's crude, 2nd-century analysis to Freud and Jung's dream psychology, and including works by Coleridge, Yeats, Tolstoy, D.H. Lawrence, Joseph Heller, and many other authors, The Oxford Book of Dreams offers an intriguing and varied sampling of humanity's collective unconscious. It explores the inexhaustible fascination of dreams and their power as a great source of literary inspiration. Zusammenfassung From dreams realistic and reminiscent to the world of nightmare and phantasmagoria! from the bizarre and ridiculous to the perplexing and haunting! this anthology draws on the dreams of a wide variety of novelists! poets! playwrights! and others to explore the inexhaustible fascination of dreams and their power as a source of literary inspiration.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Brook, Stephen (Writer) Brook
• Assisted by: Stephen Brook (Editor), Stephen (Writer) Brook (Editor), Brook Stephen (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2002
• EAN: 9780192803856
• ISBN: 978-0-19-280385-6
• No. of pages: 282
• Series: Oxford Books of Prose; The Oxford Books of Prose Series; Oxford Books of Prose
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy; BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Dreams, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, SELF-HELP / Dreams, Psychology: states of consciousness, Anthologies: general, Sleep & dreams, Dreams and their interpretation, Anthologies (non-poetry), Dreams & Their Interpretation