The Dream and the text : essays on literature and language / edited by Carol Schreier Rupprecht.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Foreword / Norman N. Holland -- Reading yourself to sleep : dreams in/and/as texts / Carol Schreier Rupprecht and Kelly Bulkley -- pt. 1. Foregrounding theory: Bizarreness in dreams and other fictions / Bert O. States -- Real dreams, literary dreams, and the fantastic in literature / Laurence M. Porter -- In defense of nightmares : clinical and literary cases / Jane White-Lewis -- pt. 2. Historical, political, cultural, and social aspects: Dreams, divination, and statecraft : the politics of dreams in early Chinese history and literature / John Brennan -- Talmudic dream interpretation, Freudian ambivalence, deconstruction / Ken Frieden -- Divinity, insanity, creativity : a Renaissance contribution to the history and theory of dream/text(s) / Carol Schreier Rupprecht -- Dreaming of death : love and money in The merchant of Venice / Kay Stockholder -- pt. 3. A dreamer and a text : case studies: The evil dreams of Gilgamesh : an interdisciplinary approach to dreams in mythological texts / Kelly Bulkley -- Hermia's dream / Norman N. Holland -- Self and self-validation in a stage character : a Shakespearean use of dream / Joseph Westlund -- A challenge to Apollonian mastery : a new reading of Henry James's "most appalling yet most admirable" nightmare / Suzi Naiburg -- pt. 4. Dreams in texts: The Marqués de Santillana : master dreamer / Harriet Goldberg -- Xerxes and Alexander : dreams of America in Claramonte's El nuevo rey Gallinato / Frederick A. de Armas -- Variations of the prophetic dream in modern Russian literature / C. Nicholas Lee.

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