Table of Contents

Foreword by Norman N. Holland Acknowledgements 1. Reading Yourself to Sleep: Dreams in/and/as Texts Carol Schreier Rupprecht and Kelly Bulkley Part I Foregrounding Theory 2. Bizarreness in Dreams and Other Fictions Bert O. States 3. Real Dreams, Literary Dreams, and the Fantastic in Literature Laurence M. Porter 4. In Defense of Nightmares: Clinical and Literary Cases Jane White-Lewis Part II Historical, Political, Cultural, and Social Aspects 5. Dreams, Divination, and Statecraft: The Politics of Dreams in Early Chinese History and Literature John Brennan 6. Talmudic Dream Interpretation, Freudian Ambivalence, Deconstruction Ken 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 Venice Kay Stockholder Part III A Dreamer and a Text: Case Studies 9. The Evil Dreams of Gilgamesh: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Dreams in Mythological Texts Kelly Bulkley 10. Hermia's Dream Norman N. Holland 11. Self and Self-validation in a Stage Character: A Shakespearean Use of Dream Joseph Westlund 12. A Challenge to Apollonian Mastery: A New Reading of Henry James's "Most Appalling Yet Most Admirable" Nightmare Suzi Naiburg Part IV Dreams in Texts 13. The Marques de Santillana: Master Dreamer Harriet Goldberg 14. Xerxes and Alexander: Dreams of America in Claramonte's El nuevo rey Gallinato Frederick A. de Armas 15. Variations of the Prophetic Dream in Modern Russian Literature C. Nicholas Lee Contributors Index

About the Author

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

Reviews

"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