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 Marqués 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