Dream and the Text

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

• Foreword by Norman N. Holland Acknowledgements 1. Reading Yourself to Sleep: Dreams in/and/as TextsCarol Schreier Rupprecht and Kelly Bulkley Part I Foregrounding Theory 2. Bizarreness in Dreams and Other FictionsBert O. States 3. Real Dreams, Literary Dreams, and the Fantastic in LiteratureLaurence M. Porter 4. In Defense of Nightmares: Clinical and Literary CasesJane White-Lewis Part II Historical, Political, Cultural, and Social Aspects 5. Dreams, Divination, and Statecraft: The Politics of Dreams in Early Chinese History and LiteratureJohn Brennan 6. Talmudic Dream Interpretation, Freudian Ambivalence, DeconstructionKen Frieden 7. Divinity, Insanity, Creativity: A Renaissance Contribution to the History and Theory of, Dream/Text(s)Carol Schreier Rupprecht 8. Dreaming of Death: Love and Money in The Merchant of VeniceKay Stockholder Part III A Dreamer and a Text: Case Studies 9. The Evil Dreams of Gilgamesh: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Dreams in Mythological TextsKelly Bulkley 10. Hermia's DreamNorman N. Holland 11. Self and Self-validation in a Stage Character: A Shakespearean Use of DreamJoseph Westlund 12. A Challenge to Apollonian Mastery: A New Reading of Henry James's "Most Appalling Yet Most Admirable" NightmareSuzi Naiburg Part IV Dreams in Texts 13. The Marqués de Santillana: Master DreamerHarriet Goldberg 14. Xerxes and Alexander: Dreams of America in Claramonte's El nuevo rey GallinatoFrederick A. de Armas 15. Variations of the Prophetic Dream in Modern Russian LiteratureC. Nicholas Lee Contributors Index

"The book offers wonderful and important commentary about the interface between dreams and texts of various sorts, about how they can inform each other, and about mutual shaping of dreams and culture." — Johanna M. King, California State University, Chico