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: Global Academic Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.1993
• EAN: 9780791413616
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-1361-6
• No. of pages: 325
• Weight: 644 g
• Series: SUNY Series in Chinese Philoso; SUNY Series in Chinese Philoso; Suny Dream Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Psychologie, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans)