The Dream and the Text - Essays on Literature and Language

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 Brontë, to Henry James. Rupprecht also incorporates various critical orientations including archetypal, comparative, feminist, historicist, linguistic, postmodern, psychoanalytic, religious, reader response, and self-psychology.

About the author

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

Product details

• Assisted by: Carol Schreier Rupprecht (Editor)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780791413623
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-1362-3
• No. of pages: 325
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 472 g
• Series: Suny Series in Buddhist Studie; Suny Series in Dream Studies; Suny Series in Buddhist Studie; Suny Series in Dream Studies; Suny Dream Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology