Making – or Not Making – Sense of Dreams. Trouver – ou non – un sens au rêve

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-8260-8738-7
Verlag: Königshausen & Neumann

Buch, Englisch, Französisch, 480 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Cultural dream studies

Dreams frighten and attract us because of their ›otherness‹, their

manifold

deviations from the world we know when we are awake. One

of the most consistently used techniques of coming to terms with this

otherness has been the attempt to ›make sense‹ of dreams, to consider

and portray them as messages which can and have to be deciphered.

On the other hand (and much more rarely), dreams have been considered

as a welcome source of entertainment, or as a key instrument

to expand the limitations of a rational and conventional world view.

This book analyses aspects of this dialectic in factual dream reports

and in fictional representations of the dream in literature, film, music,

and painting. Examples are taken from a great variety of cultures and

historical periods. Their authors and artists include: Adorno, Agualusa,

Andreas-Salomé, Apollinaire, Artmann, Beckmann, Benjamin,

Breton, Carroll, Carter, Diderot, Droste-Hülshoff, Flaubert, Goethe,

Gondry, Grandville, Ji Yun, Johannot, Kafka, Keller, Klinger, Kubin,

Li Gongzuo, Liu E, Ma Jian, Meyrink, Michaux, Minnelli, Montaigne,

Mora, Ofenbauer, Okri, Oppenheim, Plath, Proust, Pushkin, Rousseau,

Schopenhauer, Scott, Seghers, Sorel, Soseki, Wagner, Walser,

Wang Jian, Weiner, Wu Jianren, Yuan Mei, Zschokke, and many others.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dieterle, Bernard

Engel, Manfred

Vordermayer, Laura

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen

Über Autor(innen)

Bernard Dieterle is Professor of German and Comparative Literature
at the University of Upper Alsace (France) and Guest Professor at University
of St. Gallen (Switzerland).
Manfred Engel is Professor of Modern German literature at Saarland
University (Germany).
Laura Vordermayer is postdoc researcher at Saarland University
(Germany).