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Dreaming and Storytelling (Hardcover)
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Dreaming and Storytelling (Hardcover)
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Are dreams merely odd things that happen to us at night, sometimes
pleasant, sometimes terrifying, but not to be taken too seriously?
Is there any reason to think about them at all, other than in terms
of questions such as "Why should Aunt Sarah turn into a bird and
invite us all to dinner in her sycamore tree?" In this witty and
eminently readable book, Bert O. States rethinks both the meaning
of dreams and the relationship between dreaming and the telling of
stories. Dreams constitute a private literature of the self, he
says, that - despite their seeming lack of order or structure - can
help us to understand the very nature of shared literature.
Observers have often pointed out narrative elements that are common
to dreams and stories - including "cinematic" visual techniques and
such plot devices as reversals of fortune and paired villains and
antagonists. Drawing on current work in such fields as
neurobiology, cognitive psychology, literary theory, and dream
theory, States asks whether dreaming and storytelling may share
similar psychic processes as well. He first considers the
bizarreness of dreams compared to the expected intelligibility of
stories. He then surveys a wide array of stories and reported
dreams, focusing on them as narratives with varied beginnings and
endings, character functions, cause-and-effect relationships,
archetypal structures, even generic constraints. Turning to the
question of intentionality, States addresses the perennially
intriguing question of whether dreams actually do have meanings, or
whether we thrust meaning upon them. Anyone interested in the
poetics of imaginative experience - whether approached from the
perspective of the literary critic, thepsychologist, or the
psychoanalyst - will want to read this enlightening and
entertaining sequel to States's earlier book, The Rhetoric of
Dreams (also from Cornell).
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