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Les essais de ce volume retracent le développement des cultures du rêve à
travers des analyses synchroniques et diachroniques qui recouvrent une aire
géographique incluant l´Afrique, l´Asie et la Nouvelle Zélande et un champ historique
s´étendant de l´Antiquité à l´époque contemporaine, avec des études
portant sur Addison, Ammianus Marcellinus, Bachmann, Bembo, Bhasa, Blake,
Bu¤uel, Cáo Xueqín, Chaucer, Dalí, De Quincey, Deren, Dickens, Dosto‹evski,
van den Eeckhout, Eich, Flaubert, Grace-Smith, E.W. Happel, Hérodote, Hoffmann,
Joyce, Kalidasa, Keller, Kleinschroth, Kouka, Kourouma, Lamkos, Langfus,
Levi, Lessing, M.G. Lewis, C.F. Meyer, Michaux, Moreau de Tours, Nerval,
Nietzsche, Pétrarque, Platon, Subandhu, Tacite, Tang Xianzu, Tiepolo, Tolsto‹,
Wieland, et de nombreux autres.

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Preface / Préface -
I. Synchronic / Synchronique
A. ZGOLL: Früheste Träume: Zeugnisse aus dem
antiken Mesopotamien ab dem dritten Jahrtausend v. Chr. -
D. FIGUEIRA: Dream in Sanskrit Drama and Poetry -
G. WEBER: With or Without Interpretation?
Dream Narratives in Greek and Roman Historiography
from Herodotus to Ammianus Marcellinus -
J.D. KAMINSKI: Dream Encounters in Premodern
Chinese Literature, 1300-1800 (The Plum in the Golden Vase;
Tang Xuanzu, The Peony Pavilion; Wang Shifu, Romance of
the Western Chamber; Cao Xueqin, Dream of the Red Chamber) -
A. KARPINSKI: Dreams and Knowledge in Medieval
Literary Texts: Three Comparative Examples -
D. SCHOLLER: De l´intercesseur au centre d´intérêt :
Sur l´évolution de la place des rêves dans la poésie de la
Renaissance Italienne -
A. BÄHR: Dreams of Siege in Vienna 1683 -
M. ENGEL: Enlightenment and Romanticism -
the Psychological Fall and the Imaginative Rise of ´Big´ Dreams
(with examples by Addison, Lessing, Lewis,
E.T.A Hoffmann, and Nerval) -
M. ENGEL: Dreams in 19th-Century Realist
Narrative Fiction (Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit and Dombey
and Son; Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment; Flaubert,
Madame Bovary and La Tentation de saint Antoine; Keller, Der
Grüne Heinrich; C.F. Meyer, Die Richterin; Tolstoy,
War and Peace) - G. GILLESPIE: Oneiric Joyce: Dreaming the Mystery
in Finnegans Wake (1939) -
C. FRANK: "Perhaps the screen could match
our dreams": Dream Elements in Surrealist Films - C. SOLTE-GRESSER, Cauchemars d´après-guerre :
Approches d´une poétique concentrationnaire (1953-1963) -
J. LUCKS: Dreams in Contemporary US TV Series:
The Sopranos (1999-2007) -
T. SHANGO LOKOHO: Le rêve dans la littérature
africaine francophone contemporaine -
M. MAUFORT, "The place where I dance is an over place":
Dreamworld Epistemologies in Contemporary Indigenous Drama - II. Diachronic / Diachronique
M. ATES: Oneiric Existence:
(Re-)Tracing the Phenomenon of Dreaming through Readings
from Plato and Nietzsche -
M. SCHNEIDER: Accéder au divin :
La représentation du songe de Jacob, entre baroque et romantisme -
R. SCHMIDT, Ideal, Conflict, Destruction:
Lovers´ Dreams in the 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries
(Wieland´s Don Sylvio, Hoffmann´s Elixiere, Bachmann´s Malina) - B. DIETERLE: Le rêve et les paradis artificiels
(Thomas de Quincey, Jacques-Joseph Moreau de Tours,
Henri Michaux) -
The Authors / Les auteurs.

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The essays in this volume trace the development of dream cultures through time
both in synchronic and diachronic case studies. The scope of the contributions
ranges geographically from New Zealand and China, over India, Mesopotamia,
and Africa, to diverse European countries, and historically from Antiquity to the
present. The volume covers various media and disciplines, such as literature,
historiography, philosophy, painting, film, and TV series, and includes studies
on Addison, Ammianus Marcellinus, Bachmann, Bembo, Bhasa, Blake, Bu¤uel,
Cáo Xueqín, Chaucer, Dalí, De Quincey, Deren, Dickens, Dostoyevsky, van den
Eeckhout, Eich, Flaubert, Grace-Smith, E.W. Happel, Herodotus, E.T.A. Hoffmann,
Joyce, Kalidasa, Keller, Kleinschroth, Kouka, Kourouma, Lamkos, Langfus,
Levi, Lessing, M.G. Lewis, C.F. Meyer, Michaux, Moreau de Tours, Nerval,
Nietzsche, Petrarch, Plato, Subandhu, Tacitus, Tang Xianzu, Tiepolo, Tolstoy,
Wieland, and others.

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