Reading Dreams - The Interpretaion of Dreams from Chaucer to Shakespeare

ISBN-13: 9780198183631 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 208 str.

Peter Brown

Opis

Medieval and Renaissance poetry and drama are some of the best resourc es we have in determining the importance dreams had in pre-Freudian so ciety. For the first time, leading scholars have collaborated to produ ce new essays on the representation and interpretation of medieval and Renaissance dreams. Their essays, which range from Chaucer to Shakesp eare, are designed to develop innovative approaches possible only in a specially commissioned collection.

Recenzje

The volume includes its own review in the form of an introduction by A. C. Spearing (Medieval Dream Poetry), the scholar who introduced many to the whole subject of dreaming in medieval literature. It is an excellent summary of the book and analysis of the individual contributions

O autorze

Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Director of the Canterbury Centre for Medieval & Tudor Studies at the University of Kent (1993) Visiting Professor in English Literature, University of California at Los Angeles (1992-93) Distinguished Visiting Professor in Medieval Studies, University of Connecticut at Storrs (1991-92) Visiting Assistant Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (198283) Lecturer in English and American Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury (1977-93) Tutor in Medieval English Literature, University of Exeter (1976-77)